Medical providers should return the medical data ownership to the patient – a blockchain ledger solution. Opinion.

Abstract

Objective: Patients who paid for data generation, either privately or by public insurance or taxation systems, don't keep and don't have easy access to their health records. Furthermore, centralized databases that govern Big Data of health records are vulnerable to hostile breaches. Therefore, the current practice of medical data accumulation and sharing can potentially interfere with the fundamental personal rights of ownership, even endanger patients' health on one side, and provide uncompensated profit to third parties.

Material and Methods: The technical solution to this inherent problem might be storing personal medical data on the blockchain platform.

Conclusion: This method can decentralize the data accumulation, provide a high level of security of the collected data, and immutability of the stored data.