Researchers at Vanderbilt’s Institute for Software Integrated Systems have developed blockchain technology to facilitate interoperability for patient health data.

The team of engineers developed and ran the technology through proof-of-concept testing as part of a case study that has been submitted to the Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal. “The problem always is getting data to another doctor,” said study co-author Dana Zhang. “In this approach, the data is opened up for a temporary period of time (with a decryption key), but the original facility or doctor is still the data owner.”

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