3) Iryo
The Central-European, more closely Slovenia-based enterprise says it is creating a global and participatory healthcare ecosystem. The ambitious start-up was established only two years ago, but it is building an open-sourced OpenEHR platform with tremendous efforts and zero-knowledge data repository. The latter ensures that sensitive medical data will remain secure and utterly impervious to cybersecurity breaches, including state-sponsored attacks.
The overall goal of Iryo is to build an appropriate platform for keeping health records unified. Instead of all kinds of medical data from various providers stored in different formats and scattered across different systems, Iryo’s solution promises to store data securely and allow patients to share their medical history anywhere in the world. If they are testing their technology in Slovenia first, they will have a reasonably manageable pilot cohort.
4) Patientory
Atlanta-based Patientory develops a blockchain-based platform for securing health data for patients, providers and medical institutions. Its advanced healthcare app lets users create a patient profile to keep track of their health history. The software provides patients with an easy way of tracking doctor visits, medical bills, personal medical information, insurance, immunizations and pharmacy medications.
At the time of the infamous ransomware attack against the NHS, Patientory founder and CEO Chrissa McFarlane urged the UK government “to get behind a blockchain-enabled national IT health system and at the same time help to remove legal obstacles in the movement of data amongst providers”. She believed that the implementation of blockchain technology of a complex national healthcare system, such as that of the UK would not last longer than two years – if there is any political will to bring it into effect.