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EHR Data Launches Movement for Patients to Own Health Data

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EHR Data has announced the official launch of EHR Data Wavemakers, a movement geared towards educating and empowering individuals to create waves that will push a much-needed change in the healthcare industry—for patients to be able to own and control their health data.

Many people from all walks of life must have had experiences dealing with miscommunication due to delays and failures in retrieving and sharing their own health records that may have negatively impacted their own or loved ones’ medical treatment and care. At the forefront of the EHR Data Wavemakers movement is the digital campaign My EHR Story that encourages people to share their stories on social media using the hashtag #myEHRstory. This does not only create awareness about the current situation wherein patients are having difficulties accessing their personal health data—when that data should be rightfully theirs to own and control—but also spearheads a movement towards responsible data management towards a blockchain-based global healthcare database.

“EHR Data is a company that’s existed for 41 years in the U.S. It’s not a startup. It is a significant player in the world of healthcare data in the U.S. It’s bringing its 41 years of experience to follow Craig Wright’s lead in empowering people to have more control over their data, in this case, healthcare data. They want to create more patient safety. They’re building the concept of a global electronic health record so that all of your health data can live in one place on the blockchain. As opposed to the current systems we have in the U.S. and many countries where I go to my general practitioner doctor, and they have some of my health records; my dentist has some health records,” Bitcoin Association Founding President Jimmy Nguyen said in a presentation of enterprise solutions built on the Bitcoin SV blockchain during an event in Ljubljana, Slovenia last year.

This movement could not have come at a more appropriate time. As people realize the value of data during this time of the pandemic, now is the time to make waves and enact the changes needed for people to own their data and benefit from it. Not only that, the global healthcare database is built on the Bitcoin SV blockchain, which provides transparency, security, scalability, and immutability to data. Furthermore, the Bitcoin SV blockchain can accommodate big data and low-cost microtransactions and operates on an economically incentivized model,

which makes it perfect for a global healthcare database.

“Times are changing, and a greater focus is being placed on interoperability and the patients’ absolute right to increased access to their health data. We will spearhead and shepherd this process; it’s high time that there was a centralized location for healthcare data, controlled and permission by the patient that they and their team of providers can access at any time,” Ron Austring, EHR Data Chief Scientist, explained.

Because patients own their health data, they will be asked for permission whenever their data is needed for use by various institutions, and they will be paid for it. This is in contrast to the current system where only big businesses profit off of collecting people’s data. And this is why there is a need for change. People must come together to revolutionize the system so they may claim back ownership of their data.

Visit https://ehrdata.com/wavemakers to become part of this movement and to learn more on how to share your stories.

Author:Makkie Maclang

source link:https://bitcoinassociation.net/bitcoin-sv-means-business-why-bsv-is-the-enterprise-friendly-blockchain/

 

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