Unlocking the Power of Blockchain in Health Care
Setup
Stolen medical records are worth more than financial data. If your Social Security number gets into the wrong hands, the cost to society is a dime. If your credit card is hacked, that loss is worth a quarter. But your medical records? They are valued at more than $1,000. Hackers scrape medical records for personal information that can be used to file fake insurance claims, open credit accounts, obtain prescription drugs, and a lot more. With healthcare increasingly under cyberattack, blockchain has emerged as one of the leading technologies to safeguard our privacy, identity, and financial security. How great is the risk and can we protect ourselves?
- 2018 Health
- Health
- Science
- Technology
Explore More
Health
NBA star Kevin Love gets real about depression and mental health during the coronavirus pandemic.
What would you do for a stranger?
Former Ebola czar on how to make the tough choices during the Coronavirus pandemic.
How do you deal with the unprecedented?
Time on your hands? Looking to escape into learning? Dive deeply into a broad array of topics from Aspen Ideas. Discover how soul music became a soundtrack to some of our nati...
Health workers often face grueling working conditions. Even under normal circumstances, they regularly confront trauma, work long hours, are exposed to physical danger, and mu...
Women's History Month is an opportunity to honor the indelible contributions women have made in societies around the world. But don't wait until remarkable women are in histor...
A changing climate means a changing diet.
New technologies in 2020 may demand more of our already overloaded attention. Tech titans and communications companies are releasing advances like 5G and quantum computing tha...