9) Medicalchain
The London-based company is building a decentralized, blockchain-based platform to securely store health records and share these digital records with doctors, hospitals, laboratories, pharmacists – if the patient permits these stakeholders. Moreover, Medicalchain also supports telemedicine on its platform: it allows patients to communicate with their doctors via online sessions and share their health information. In the future, the enterprise will let third-party developers build applications within the Medicalchain system, which could mean medication management solutions, apps interacting with wearables or giving dietary advice.
In March 2018, the company announced a partnership with The Groves Medical Group, an organization with 30,000 registered NHS patients. The Groves will be the first medical practice in the UK to use blockchain technology and to accept cryptocurrency as payment for health services, broadening access to private healthcare across its four medical centers. The exciting pilot projects will start in July 2018, and we cannot wait to hear about the results.
10) EncrypGen
The company became famous for its promise to help people sell the information in their DNA for cryptocurrency tokens. EncrypGen says it is building a unique blockchain platform or the „Amazon of genetic material” to enable people to share genomic data safely and securely on a new emerging market – the genomic data market – for cryptocurrency.
The MyGene-Chain market was launched earlier in 2018. It is available for individual consumers who want to secure, share, and potentially re-market their de-identified genomic data. However, some experts warned that the de-identification process might be problematic and could reveal private data. Moreover, the system does not entirely secure the platform against fraud. What if someone claims to have a rare genetic disease to rush up the price of the genetic data? In addition, the entire idea raises an essential ethical question: would you sell your genetic data for money to researchers?