Blockchain tracking platform, VeChain, appear that it co-developed a blockchain-based medical information management platform in partnership with digital healthcare solution firm I-Dante.

The platform, dubbed "The East-NewHealthLife", is set to encounter deployment at the Mediterranean Hospital of Republic of cyprus — with the European island's healthcare sector reportedly operating with numerous inefficiencies resulting from outdated technological infrastructure, VeChain announced on May xvi.

The Mediterranean Hospital of Cyprus has 300 employees and processed 38,000 outpatient visits during 2022.

VeChain launches DLT medical platform in Cyprus

The offset phase of the platform'south rollout volition run across information technology used in the emergency department of the Cyprus hospital, assuasive patients to identify themselves, bank check waiting lists, and autonomously manage their medical records from their mobile phone.

"Instead of relying on health data exchanges or other means to aggregate data," Vechain asserts its platform is capable of "eliminating the middleman and accessing patient databases on a big, population calibration."

DLT modernizes medical data management

VeChain cites numerous challenges encountered past the hospital in seeking to modernize its technological infrastructure in contempo decades, including "the administrative and technical difficulties of pooling data from different digital records systems," a "lack of collaboration betwixt local departments and agencies," and "balanc[ing] health imperatives and privacy concerns."

The firm emphasizes the efficacy of blockchain-based solutions to the problems of modernizing the tech systems underpinning healthcare organizations, noting the enhanced patient privacy also afforded past distributed ledger technology, or DLT.

During April, VeChain appear that its blockchain engineering science would be deployed to rail the authenticity of Chinese KN95 masks entering the United States after the U.Due south. Nutrient and Drug Administration, or FDA, canonical their use amid the worsening COVID-19 pandemic.

The coronavirus pandemic has seen DLT deployed in a broad variety of contexts, including medical supply tracking, information management, and distributing donations.