Okay, so it’s a ledger that's "secure" and "transparent". hmm. http://blogs.wsj.com/cio/2016/02/02/cio-explainer-what-is-blockchain/
I must come up with a transaction that adds from one side of the ledger to the other and/or subtracts from one side to the other.
Once the transaction is complete, I must make sure the ledger is reconciled and auditable.
How would we put this to use in healthcare?
I assume, possibly wrongly, that the transaction for healthcare would add to a person’s healthcare record or subtract from it.
In other words, I am adding healthcare information to Person A’s record and taking it from the provider that Person A saw?
I’m not sure that is correct but let’s try a use case.
Person A goes to Practice Z and is administered drug Ibuprofen. My blockchain transaction would look like this: Add drug Ibuprofen to drug list ledger of Person A and subtract drug Ibuprofen from drug order list of Practice Z.
This doesn’t make sense to me unless the ledger already has a record of Practice Z’s drug orders. I think I may be hung up on my far distant knowledge of double-ledger bookkeeping. In double-ledger bookkeeping, every addition to one account must correspond to a subtraction from another account. This doesn’t seem like a starter. Time to go back and do more reading.
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