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Tuesday, April 22, 2025

Health-Tech | How Blockchain can be useful in healthcare - Jamaica Gleaner

We have heard a lot of talk about Blockchain over the last few years in reference to technology and how it can revolutionise data collection, storage, and information sharing.
Blockchain can be viewed as a set of data that remains in place with somewhat of a time stamp. When other data is added, the information around the first set remains undisturbed, and subsequent data is stamped with its own time-and-placement information. What this does is prevent information tampering, no matter what device on which the information is accessed, and provides a comprehensive log of everything that is included in the database in a systematic way.
As the name suggests, we can think of it as a chain whose links increase based on the data added – each piece of data would be considered a link in the chain.
Blockchain was first used when the cryptocurrency era emerged as a way to enable safe and secure data storage and tracking but has since been applied to several disciplines. Healthcare is one such...



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