Distributed Health Records

In the last decade there has been a push from world health organizations and the healthcare industry to move health records into the digital age. As a consequence hundreds of companies have developed and deployed their custom solutions. But as the different systems grow, the interoperability between the systems have become an issue.

For example, if a patient has an electronic record in one hospital and needs a procedure that's only provided by another hospital; how the later hospital will have access to the patient information? Are the records compatible? Most likely not.

In order to help with this problem presented on the simple scenario above, the HL7 organization was created; from which multiple standards have been developed. The latest been HL7 FHIR Specification 4.

However this standard does not deal with identities across institutions.

Our proposal is to provide a headless HL7 FHIR API solution that uses Atala PRISM and the sole Identification source, and open source it. Headless in this scenario means that we will provide the backend and an administration portal for configuring it, so that multiple companies, countries or individuals can build their custom applications on top of it. By utilizing the Atala Prism and W3C recommended Distributed IDs (DID) we present a solution to manage identities across-domain. Our solution will be the first Distributed Patient Record Management System on Cardano.

In short, we provide the backend source code and documentation on how to configure it and how to build applications for it. Our hope is that through helping multiple companies and government organizations to build their products on top of our framework, thousands of new patient records will be successfully tracked on the Cardano blockchain.