Patient Engagement based on Corporate Terms is Flawed. — Providing medical care to a patient has always been a journey between a physician or healer and the Patient. Like many other voyages, medical care has one or more partakers onboard. Also, as in different journies, medical care comes with a driver or leader. Such driver has witnessed its particular…

Modern Data Analytics, Big Data, and Computer Algorithms can Turn Physician Clinical Judgment against Them! — For over three decades, the healthcare system in America has been through constant turmoil regarding the balance between quality of health and health expenditure. From the start of the Medicare program in the 1970s to the expansion of other management organizations are purely fee-for-service payment models to a capitation payment…

Patients frequently have one complaint that when they move or switch from one healthcare provider to another, their new doctor does not have easy access to their entire medical history. …

Chronological insight to the evolution of Health Information Security shift — Information is power, and such power is a sacred property of every individual. Once a person grants another person or entity their private information, it provides the key to their inner realm. …

Holding on to your Data Is not owning It! — With growing emphasis on value-based healthcare reimbursement, we are finding ourselves more than ever challenged by the parallel escalation of corporate interest in "patient health information." Health data security and the monetary value in quality data are the drivers of such tension. Despite all the rationing in releasing the pressure…

The financial services industry is still divided over cryptocurrency, with many analysts saying it’s the way to generate wealth quickly and others insisting it will crash and burn. But the technology that underpins Bitcoin, Ethereum and other cryptos — the blockchain distributed ledger system — is here to stay. …

Yet, the centralization of the process stands the circumstance of the offset strategy. Life is the embodiment of a lengthy and intricate task. Realistically speaking, our lives are nothing but one big giant project. Day in and day out, we must carry out tasks through simplification, collaboration, or project management. Every job stands an activity an individual needs to attain within a defined period or by a deadline. Within that timeframe, the responsible…

Patients, Physicians, and Stakeholders all benefit from Blockchain Technology and Decentralized Operations. — Decentralization of data encourages transparency, culpability, and, most of all, efficient stewardship. A Myriad of stakeholders, including physicians, nurses, and administrators, are involved in the patient care synopsis. They all need to benefit from accurate medical records while confident that their personal information is private, secure, and abuse-resistant. It is…

Added Peek at the Utility of Centralized in Conjunction with a Robust Decentralized Medical Practice Systems — This article was originally published in Data Driven Investor Blockchain is a relatively novel decentralized or distributed data ledger system. Instead of banking health information in a single database, blockchain stores it in a chain of data blocks called nods. It wasn't too long ago I published a piece titled…

A Practical Approach toward Decentralized, Secured Medical Records while Sustaining Scalability — Blockchain technology or a decentralized distributed digital ledger system (Figure 1) is a configuration that stores transactional records, known as the blocks. It merely holds the data in many databases, known as the "chain," in a network connected through peer-to-peer nodes. It contrasts with the traditional centralized databases that store…

Where do we stand Today amid Big Data Piracy?! — Health information security is one of many dangers threatening the healthcare system around the world. The problem does not stop at simple compliance with securing and preventing patient identity exposure. It’s also about patient safety, autonomy, and sovereignty. Despite having access to state-of-the-art technologies and science to prevent personal information…