Inspiration
Recently, I read an article about the importance of maintaining medical record and the medical negligence present in the currently existing system, that results in poor diagnostics of patient’s condition and limits the potential of Medical System.
What it does
Medical records of the patient obtained from different hospitals from birth are stored as transactions in the block which can be retrieved using digital signatures in future. The cumulative information about the patient’s health can provide better diagnostics resulting in improvements in patient’s health conditions.
How we built it
It is built on XDC platform by using solidity. Since XDC is a hybrid blockchain, the level of transparency of the records can be controlled. XDC platform provides interoperability that helps in collecting information from databases of different hospitals. Smart contracts are held in such a way that the information sharing among the hospitals will be secure and beneficial to the patients and doctors. The medical records are stored as transactions which can be linked by using Merkle's root hash.
Challenges we ran into
Implementing Interoperability among databases of different hospital and linking them into a common database through Merkle Root Hash method.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
An effective and innovative way of storing and retrieving entire medical records of an individual from the birth to till their existence in blockchain.
What we learned
We have learned about XDC platform and its uses in blockchain , then we have learned about ,How data's are shared among different computers (Interoperability) , and to link databases of different hospitals through Merkle Root Hash , we also learned about digitalized contracts (Smart Contract) and various Consensus mechanisms that are present in the blockchain.
What's next for India's Health Chain (IHC)
By implementing this project , instead of providing generalized medicines to patient, specific medicines can be provided which will be more effective in terms of curing the patient's ailments in a shorter period of time.
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