Healthcare opportunities through Blockchain

Patients’ health information is a resource of key importance for their effective treatment. In the field of healthcare, medical information is usually fragmented and inaccessible to doctors from various medical institutions, state and municipal health institutions. This problem affects the formation of a complex database of medical information. The absence of a completed composition of medical data affects the: accuracy of diagnoses; the treatment administered; the follow-up of the effects of prescribed therapy, i.e. the quality of health services. This most often leads to negative consequences for public health. Given the importance of this problem and the complexity of managing huge amounts of medical data, the solution implies an interdisciplinary approach, that is, uniting the intellectual potential of specialists from the different branches of science and practice. The article examines the possibilities of blockchain technology to solve these challenges.