The Hippocratic Auth - Medicinal Blockchain VeChainThor
Try to make these so anyone can see for self and dig deep or take a quick glance and get the picture. Suggest reading/viewing/digesting the links et cetera vs the quick glance method (or both). To each their own though. Much of the academic papers are above my head and take me V times reading them to barely comprehend what it means.
If new to VeChain then believe it or not, medicine is not the only sector/domain for folks burning VTHO. Whether BaaS or free-style, it makes no difference to me, as long as the use case has purpose and runs on VeChainThor.
Satoshi Nakamoto created Bitcoin applying the solution to Byzantine Generals Problem (which could turn out to be one of the greatest inventions of this century ultimately) giving birth to the still relatively new and now super useful general purpose technology known as blockchain. The advent of smart-contracts was another major leap forward in blockchain.
VeChain is not messing around. At all. Can feel these next V years coming and one can see by learning about the past. Like Janus, though it’s always good to try and live in the moment. Really like Oscar Wilde’s quote but the Neil Armstrong adaptation is nice. It’s an ongoing quest as a fallible human, but if shoot for the stars and land on the moon then boom.
The first two years of the VeChainThor mainnet has been impressive, and we are witnessing the leader in real-world enterprise-grade public blockchain with actual utility and highest probability “winner” of the blockchain space (beyond token transfers et cetera and in addition to the glory/gift of the OG “time-chain” peg).
Am able to say that with a high degree of confidence having developed a fervent joy for reading, researching, and engaging in discourse over the past several years since arriving to this space. Caveat to anyone with pre-conceived notions if considering full-on deep diving. There’s a lot of goodness to digest.
Enter Distributed Data Vending on Blockchain: an academic paper from a VeResearch partner.
“In this paper, we propose a distributed data vending (DDV) framework which consists of a suite of machine learning modules to enable individuals to exchange data on blockchains through smart contracts. Like other vending services, a data entry has to be indexed and retrieved before it can be exchanged on blockchains. However, the challenge comes from the dilemma between data indexing and information leakage:building indexes for retrieval requires access to the data, which is hard to achieve on blockchains where no trusted third parties are available. To tackle this challenge, the proposed DDV approach generates a signature of the data entry using a a privacy-preserving data embedding procedure. The signature can be published along with the data access in smart contracts. The framework also provides task-specific similarity functions,which take the signatures as input to measure the similarity among data entries. The proposed DDV framework can be used in many data vending scenarios, and in this paper we use EHR data vending as a concrete example to illustrate the concept and its feasibility.”
The Distributed Data Vending on Blockchain paper was published by now VeChain CTO Peter Zhou and Jiayu Zhou among others after Jiayu Zhou collaborated with colleagues from Tencent AI Lab and the Department of Healthcare and Policy and Research on identifying issues with our current electronic medical records (EHR).
Jiayu Zhou has very strong experience with accolades for his academic work and leads the Illidan Lab at Michigan State University.
“ILLIDAN Lab is currently sponsored by National Science Foundation, Office of Naval Research, Didi Chuxing and VeChain Foundation. We would also like to thank NVIDIA Corporation for the donation of GPU cards.”
That’s bigtime y’all.
“Acknowledgments
This material is based upon work supported by the VeResearch research gift from VeChain Foundation, National Science Foundation under Grant IIS-1749940, IIS-1615597,
and Office of Naval Research N00014–17–1–2265”.
Transforming high-level academic research into meaningful blockchain use cases on-chain isn’t something that just happens overnight. It requires agility, willingness to adapt and pioneer, open-source technology, navigating regulatory work/compliance, strategic thinking, capital, and strong work ethics and efforts by countless people collectively over a long period of time.
“Just as the blockchain technology represents something much bigger than business and money, this partnership represents the true competency for global change embedding trust, transparency, and fairness to the core of our society. Along with our partners, we are excited to showcase the true value of blockchain as supplemental technology and as an infrastructure to the world.” — Sunny Lu, Co-Founder, and CEO of VeChain
“Cyprus as a nation represents a wonderful opportunity to make trust and fairness commonplace in the next digital age. As the first nation to fully support the development of the blockchain technology, along with our partners, we will assist the nation to attract projects and talents from around the world increasing the vivaciousness of development building an ecosystem out of blockchain technology. In turn, we will help blockchain related projects to find a home where they will be supported and protected by the law to create, develop and thrive.” — Jackson Fu, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of CREAM
“Invest Cyprus, the island’s national investment agency, signed an MoU in October 2018 with the Singapore-registered public blockchain service creator VeChain Foundation, and with the USA-registered blockchain project strategy advisory CREAM on the promotion of DLT on the island. VeChain and CREAM will jointly advise “Invest Cyprus” on issues of public policy that affect economic development with the view of ensuring the efficient use of blockchain in investment and financial services transactions.”
Low and behold, the following looks like the fruits of several years of hardwork after a MOU is signed in Cyprus and a VeResearch implemented Data Management Platform that gives ownership of data and is GDPR compliant.
There’s also a blockchain use case for COVID-19 E-HCerts powered by VeChain Toolchain.
DDV paper was published a few years ago and next thing we know there are legit real-world medical use cases running on VeChainThor.
Witness the E-HCert contract on VeChainUniverse.com - eXpansion of solid use cases, additional VeResearch, and VeChain ToolChain will further accelerate the explosion.
Here is an overview of VeResearch found on VeChainWorld
“There have been two research projects funded by the Foundation at the Department of Computer Science, Dartmouth College. One project, led by Prof. David Kotz, is aimed to explore the use of blockchain technologies to build decentralized healthcare data systems”
Abstract: There has been increasing interest in connecting disjointed Electronic Medical Records, mobile health data, and related health data systems for the purpose of improving preventative and precision medicine, while also providing individuals with greater access and control to their data. Blockchains provide data transparency, immutability, and decentralized trust — making them a promising solution to the interoperability and security issues faced by such health data systems. Several papers have proposed the use of blockchain technology in healthcare to determine its viability as a solution and to identify potential applications and challenges. We build upon their work by 1) presenting implementation details related to blockchain applications in health data systems, 2) discussing the security, privacy, and performance trade-offs of each, and 3) identifying a set of research questions regarding the use of blockchain technology in health data systems. We find that blockchain-based healthcare research should place greater emphasis on real-world deployments and testing, smart-contract security, efficient and usable audit tools, blockchain governance, and adherence to healthcare data regulations and standards.
Here’s the Amanuensis Project: a blockchain-based mHealth data sharing system below.
“In the “Amanuensis” project we explore the potential combination of blockchain and trusted-execution-environment (TEE) technology to support strong integrity and confidentiality guarantees in the storage of health-related data… including robust provenance information regarding information derived from original sources”.
There are multiple key VeResearch Partners doing work across the globe that ultimately lead to meaningful implementations (like Proof of Authority upgrade SURFACE) from Peter Zhou and Zhijie Ren that will wield significant improvements and even more viable use cases that over time lead to on-chain transactions/clauses.
“Bayer and VeChain’s Csecure Clinical Trial Traceability Platform perfectly demonstrates the advantage of integrating blockchain technology to solve long-standing problems in the healthcare industry. Just recently, VeChain and the Mediterranean Hospital of Cyprus also announced the successful deployment of an archival and digital passport solution for COVID19 patients. VeChain also powers the backend of DNV GL’s blockchain solutions through VeChain ToolChain, which coincides with DNV GL’s recent announcement of their blockchain-enabled infection risk management platform, MyCare.
It is without a doubt that blockchain will power the traceability systems of tomorrow, and VeChain is perfectly positioned as the leader and enabler of enterprises to adopt blockchain technology. With VeChain ToolChain, companies can customize their own needs and deploy blockchain solutions easily.”
In addition to the CSecure clinical trial traceability platform and DNV GL’s ToolChain enabled MyCare, there is also a collaborative initiative that scrapes official state health sites for COVID-19 data and stores the immutable NFT’s on IPFS then among folks including contributions from Real Items and VeChainStats (which is also now supported by VeChain Foundation) that utilizes the VeChainThor blockchain.
Here’s another new decentralized medical-based technology that runs on VeChainThor and includes the ownership of data: Verida Health.
Gotta loVe their patient example on the website. Frank Sinatra ha’s.
There was also a smart hospital beds solution announced around the time of last year’s VeChain Summit as well as a carbon-ecosystem related solution with a different hospital that have occured.
Also, here’s an old video from the VeChain Foundation:
There cleary are real-world use cases of blockchain for the medical field and VeChainThor is the public blockchain where these innovations are being implemented.
Updating here to include recent relavent links:
The VeResearch collaboration with Oxford University Mathematics will help further ensure longevity and quality of the actual enterprise-grade public blockchain where valuable transactions (clauses/Multi-Task Transactions et cetera) occur every day ! Cheers y’all !
