Healthcare Data Sharing by GAVS

The novel coronavirus has transformed the way patient care is managed and defined. Telemedicine's has made consultations across the world possible. When it comes to providing a better vaccine and remedy to patients, research is extremely important. A data-sharing framework is a need in the healthcare industry. A data-sharing framework shares the data of the patients at the same time, keeps the data ownership under control.

Types of Healthcare Data

There are three types of Healthcare Data. They are:

- Personal Healthcare Record (PHR): This contains health-related information’s about individuals that conform to nationally recognized interoperability standards. These information’s can be drawn from multiple sources while being shared, controlled and managed by the individuals.

- Electronic Medical Record (EMR): These are the kind of electronic record which and individual’s health-related information that can be gathered, created, consulted and managed by authorized staffs and clinicians within a healthcare organization.

- Electronic Health Record (EHR): These are health-related information on an individual that conforms to nationally recognized interoperability standards. These information’s can be consulted, created and managed by staffs and clinicians who are authorized across more than one healthcare organization.

Current Challenges in Sharing Healthcare Data

- Lack of unique identity for patients

- High cost and error-prone integration

- Conflict of interest in ensuring data integrity and patient privacy

- Compliance needs like HIPAA, GDPR

- Data stewardship, and consent management

- Lack of real-time information

Blockchain for Healthcare Data Sharing

- Blockchain is a distributed database which converges updates and provides a single version of the truth

- A cryptography-based transaction processing mechanism is used by Blockchain databases

- Smart contracts are used to carry out Blockchain transactions

GAVS Rhodium Framework for Sharing of Healthcare Data combines the best features of multi-model database along with the viability of data sharing that is facilitated by Blockchain, which helps to come up with a unified framework for healthcare data sharing.

GAVS’ Rhodium Framework for Healthcare

The model comprises of four stages of sharing healthcare data. These are:

- Within a hospital

- Across hospitals

- Between patients and hospitals

- Between patients, hospitals and other agencies

Benefits of the GAVS Rhodium Framework for Healthcare Data Sharing

For Patients:

- Enables unique identity

- Better and quicker access

- Prevents unauthorized monetization

- Lowers the cost of healthcare

- Improved patient engagement

For Hospitals:

- Reduces the cost of diagnosis

- Provides a path to the cloud

- Enables better care for patients

- Scope for advanced researches

- Quicker enrolment

Healthcare Industry Trends concerning Data Sharing

- Interoperability

- New privacy regulations

- Legal and ethical use of AI

- Duality of data security and data integration

- Increase in national privacy data standards

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