unsubstantiated lack of trust in sharing healthcare information electronically due to misreading of HIPPA
Obama-era HITECH Act (2009) allots $30 billion to incentivize doctors to use digital records
74% growth in number of hospitals using electronic records by 2015
Still, little progress with electronic file sharing
What's wrong with faxing?
Waste of paper and resources
Antiquated system within the high tech medical industry
Unreliable
So what's our solution?
Blockfax
We used Blockstack to create a decentralized blockchain app that addresses the security concerns of HIPAA as the service does not centrally store user data; only the sending and receiving clients see this.
We started with Google's Cloud Vision and Natural Language API to read scans of health forms and then organizes the data to be sent over the Blockstack network
Why Blockfax?
Speeds up the process of sharing medical data between hospitals and clinics