5 year study looks at if token rewards can improve HIV patient outcomes in Af...
A Kenyan university and a blockchain healthcare provider will join forces to study whether Africa’s HIV crisis can be helped by using crypto and blockchain technology. A groundbreaking five-year study into whether crypto token incentives can improve health outcomes for patients with HIV/AIDS will be launched in Kenya by the end of the year.On Nov 1, the blockchain-powered healthcare ecosystem Immunify.Life and the Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology (MMUST) announced they had secured the approval needed from an ethics committee and the national commission to launch the....
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New Study Investigates the Role of Blockchain-Based Data Capture & Crypto Incentives in Improving Patient Outcomes MMUST, the premier technology and innovation university in Kenya, and Immunify.Life, a transformative and self-sustaining healthcare ecosystem secured by blockchain, has entered into a partnership that will leverage MMUST’s academic and research prowess and the advanced tech infrastructure of Immunify.Life to address the issue of poor patient data collection, patient relapses, and misaligned incentives with a specific focus on HIV-positive patients in Kenya. In the innovative....
Immunify.Life leverages fast, secure, and cost-effective Cardano Blockchain to revamp patient data collection and provision Infections and diseases kill millions of people around the world every year, but ineffective healthcare processes and policies have a significant negative impact on patient outcomes as well. From relapsed patients and delays in providing care to inaccurate patient data […]
Healthcare is one of the industries that generate terabytes of data each day. Hospitals and healthcare services providers are investing thousands of dollars every year to manage patient information and other data. Even after all these, there is a disconnect between one healthcare provider and another. When a patient decides to switch his healthcare provider due to any reason, the patient's medical records have to be either migrated manually from the previous hospital/ healthcare center or the patient will be forced to undergo a plethora of diagnostic tests to evaluate his or her medical....
Cryptocurrency enthusiasts will recall the story of several hospitals being infected with Bitcoin ransomware earlier this year. A new study on how hospitals treat patient privacy and confidentiality shows how malware attacks are not the biggest concern. Poor security practices can be found everywhere, putting patient information at risk unnecessarily. The report, titled Workarounds to Computer Access in Healthcare Organizations, paints a very worrisome picture. Technology makes the healthcare system more convenient for all parties involved, but human errors are causing a lot of problems.....
Following months of speculation, Augur’s digital token Reputation (REP) was launched on October 4, with the core product platform slated to go live soon. Since REP's launch, the token has seen a great deal of popularity within the community and is positioned eighth on CoinCap’s list of most valuable currencies. Augur is a decentralized prediction-market network and forecasting tool built on the Ethereum network. Using Ether or other digital currencies, users can participate in forecasting the outcomes of future real-world events, and are rewarded if they correctly predict those outcomes.....