Re: [NetBehaviour] Fwd: Blockchain-enabled telemedicine service to be piloted with London patients

2018-06-05 Thread Alan Sondheim
Thanks for this; it's fascinating and it's difficult for me to understand how this would operate in practice. What if information was suddenly needed by a doctor for another case and the patient has died? What if the patient was comatose and the information was needed to save hir life? What

Re: [NetBehaviour] Fwd: Blockchain-enabled telemedicine service to be piloted with London patients

2018-06-05 Thread Edward Picot via NetBehaviour
Alan, I'm sceptical about it too. For one thing paying for medical care is still private medicine, even if the payment in question is made via a new type of e-currency. But it's also unclear from the article exactly how much the blockchain will be involved in medical record-keeping - is the

Re: [NetBehaviour] Fwd: Blockchain-enabled telemedicine service to be piloted with London patients

2018-06-03 Thread Alan Sondheim
Hi, read about this as well as the comments which are somewhat skeptical - I'm curious what your opinion is? Thanks, Alan On Sun, 3 Jun 2018, Edward Picot via NetBehaviour wrote: A new telemedicine platform utilising blockchain technology will be trialled with patients in south-west

[NetBehaviour] Fwd: Blockchain-enabled telemedicine service to be piloted with London patients

2018-06-03 Thread Edward Picot via NetBehaviour
*A new telemedicine platform utilising blockchain technology will be trialled with patients in south-west London next month...* **https://www.digitalhealth.net/2018/05/blockchain-enabled-telemedicine-service-to-by-piloted-with-groves-medical-patients/