Medical Records Ownership Protocol

[IMPACT] Please describe your proposed solution.

Before anything, can you tell me the significance of Medical Records Rights / Ownership? Why does this matter?

Sure. To illustrate it simply, suppose you visit your doctor today, it is likely that your doctor will input your record into a EMR (electronic medical records) system. Some systems even allow you to view/access your records in a web portal or a mobile app. In this case, have you ever thought if your health information belongs to you or to your doctor?

While it is true that the doctor was the one who created the data, this medical records contain your information and were actually created specifically for you. So, who has the rights to it?

Interesting, any consensus yet on who owns which?

Hmmm, that's actually the major challenge currently as described further in this article from Forbes. In US, there are different laws per state regarding medical records ownership, see here details.

Ok, if this remains a challenge, what are you trying to do differently to address this?

Thanks for asking! The Hippocrades Team believes that medical records ownership can be addressed by providing specific shared rights and privileges to the 'owners'. This is previously impossible to do, but thanks to blockchain and other cryptographic protocols, this can now be set and automated.

I'd like to know more of this, where do I see details?

We have written a white paper on it here.

Let's say medical records rights and ownership are addressed, what then? Any good use case for it?

Well, for one, it is great for a Healthcare Information Exchange platform since there are clear rights who can access the records while remaining auditable. Second, it gives a patient an opportunity to earn from his/her data. This is a multibillion dollar sector for which patients (whose data are being sold) can profit from. See Time article here.

[IMPACT] Please describe how your proposed solution will address the Challenge that you have submitted it in.

Specifically, tell me how Medical Records Rights Protocol will help for a future wide-scale Cardano adoption in Africa?

It is important to note that this proposal is part of the Hippocrades Healthcare Infrastructure and Protocol project. Many parts of Hippocrades are also funded by Catalyst (see links below).

Hippocrades would allow health facilities, health providers, doctors, and patients to use healthcare apps and participate in a decentralized healthcare exchange. If successful, this has a potential of generating hundreds of thousand (if not millions) of transactions in a regular basis and benefiting not just the healthcare sector in Africa but the Cardano blockchain as well.

[IMPACT] What are the main risks that could prevent you from delivering the project successfully and please explain how you will mitigate each risk?

Health Core is Already Built

The core of this healthcare platform is DONE, something we have been working on since 2016. Thus, the foundation is already set up, we just need to build the Medical Records Ownership / Rights Protocol on top of this.

Existing Healthcare APIs of Hippocrades will be expanded with new ones from this protocol.

Potential Risk

In terms of capabilities, our team has shown that we can deliver. The potential challenge could be the setting of the deliverables timeline. There are some external factors that may be overlooked during planning (in a previous project, couple of our team members got Covid, for example).

To mitigate this, we will propose a more conservative timeline of activities in this proposal in consideration of potential factors that can cause delay.

[FEASIBILITY] Please provide a detailed plan, including timeline and key milestones for delivering your proposal.

Week 1

• Set up of team and project goals / objectives
• Review of requirements
• Review of System Architecture (Hippocrades is a platform with multiple modules, use cases, and intricacies)

Weeks 2 - 5

• Backend Development: Rights Enforcement API
• Estimate (20 days)

Weeks 6 - 7

• Backend Development: Rights Police
• Estimate (10 days)

Weeks 8 - 9

• Backend Development: Record Proof
• Estimate (10 days)

Weeks 10 - 11

• Backend Development: Record Access
• Estimate (10 days)

Weeks 12 - 14

• Quality Assurance and Testing
• Re-work (if needed)

Weeks 14 - 16

• Documentation and Release

[FEASIBILITY] Please provide a detailed budget breakdown.

Project Lead (1)

• 4 months (spread) @ $ 1.5T / month
• $ 6T

System Analyst and Designer

• 2 months (spread) @ $ 3T/month
• $ 6T

Backend Senior Developer

• 3 months @ $3T / month
• $ 9T

QA / Documentation

• 1 month @ $1.5T / month
• $ 1.5T

Total: USD 22,500

[FEASIBILITY] Please provide details of the people who will work on the project.

Our team has been building healthcare solutions since 2016. We have built Hippocrades, a decentralized healthcare infrastructure for web 3.0. It has been funded by Project Catalyst and is now part of the Ariob Incubator / Iceaddis program in Africa (this is in partnership with Cardano). It is also a finalist in the recent Seedstar - FT x Cardano Blockchain Challenge.

References to Our Works

• Hippocrades Whitepaper here
• Deploy your own health dApps (www.hippocrades.org)
• Actual deployment of Hippocrades (www.hippocrades.com)
• Demo of Hippocrades Apps here
• Healthcare API documentation here
• We are the same team behind MYCURE
• Related funded projects from Catalyst, see links below

Core Tech Team

We are a 10 man team and also have a pool of tech consultants that we can tap on a project basis. This project will be lead by the following:

Dale is the founder of Hippocrades and the co-author of its two (2) white papers. He also founded a health tech startup, MYCURE, and healthcare APIs platform HAPI Hub. Prior to these startups, he also founded and run Team OPS (a soft dev company) for 11 years. He graduated with the highest distinction in his master's class at the University of the Philippines and also took a one-year graduate program in management at Harvard University.

Joff has been programming and focusing on web development using JavaScript in the past 9 years (since 2012). Most of his time is spent mastering frontend development using AngularJS, Angular, and Vue.js frameworks. Currently, he is dabbling on SvelteJS. He is passionate on contributing to the open-source community. Being a big fan of Vue.js, his projects are mostly based on Vue.js or JavaScript.

Joff's Areas of Expertise:

• Stripe Community Expert
• Creator of Vue-Stripe
• OSS Community Building
• Web Development
• Mobile Development
• JavaScript
• VueJS
• HTML, CSS, Javascript

Nad is a natural geek growing up. He has been coding since the art has been introduced to him at age 15. This has led him to choose Computer Science as his undergraduate degree at the top university in the country. Since 2016, he is mostly involved in designing healthcare systems—developing APIs like EMRs and full scale health information management solutions.

Nad's Areas of Expertise:

• System Analysis & Design
• API Development
• Kubernetes
• gRPC
• Blockchain
• Zero-knowledge cryptography protocols
• Programming Languages: C, Javascript, Rust, Go

[FEASIBILITY] If you are funded, will you return to Catalyst in a later round for further funding? Please explain why / why not.

Yes. Hippocrades is a huge undertaking as explained in detail in its two (2) white papers:

1. Hippocrades Infrastructure white paper
2. Hippocrades Protocol (Hippr) white paper

While it has already major milestones over the last 5 years, it still has some needed tasks to complete its infrastructure.

[FEASIBILITY] Are you or any member of your team working on any other proposals in this Fund9?

[FEASIBILITY] Are you or your team working on any other proposals from previous Funds?

[AUDITABILITY] Please describe what you will measure to track your project's progress, and how will you measure these?

In the last 5 years that we have been building healthcare apps, we have been applying the following below:

• Stable code (to minimize application downtime)
• Simple code (simplicity is key, the simpler it is the faster to test and change)
• Testable code (acts like documentation so that changes will immediately show errors)
• Team velocity (story points delivered per sprint)
• Knowledge share (collaborative meetings and proper documentation)

Tasks and deliverables of the Dev Team are placed in GitHub from which we track, monitor, manage activities that are pending, ongoing, and done.

[AUDITABILITY] What does success for this project look like?

Success During Development

Modules and features are listed accordingly that contain the tasks/activities required and their corresponding due dates to accomplish each.

We monitor success by ticking off each task done per module. For delayed items, these are regularly brought up in daily standups and weekly meetings to discuss blockings/issues and what needs to be done to address them.

Success as a Project

Once the Medical Records Rights Protocol is deployed and becomes available in the Hippocrades infrastructure, this is considered DONE.

[AUDITABILITY] Please provide information on whether this proposal is a continuation of a previously funded project in Catalyst or an entirely new one.

Hippocrades as an Infrastructure and Platform

Hippocrades is more than just an app, it's a health infrastructure and platform that other developers can use to build more healthcare apps. It also has apps that are independent of each other but can be used altogether (or in combination) depending on the needs of the deployer.

Following are the funded proposals by Catalyst that are part of the Hippocrades ecosystem:

• Integration of Health Infra to Cardano blockchain here
• Pharmacy Management System here
• Vaccine Management Platform here
• Hospital Management System here (status: ongoing)

Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Rating

The related SDG Goals below are aligned with Hippocrades' mission to make healthcare data safely and securely accessible to all. Providing a health tech infrastructure allows nations to achieve the 3.8 SDG subgoals since these require a robust system to be able to deliver such services efficiently.

SDG Goals

Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages

SDG Subgoals

3.8 Achieve universal health coverage, including financial risk protection, access to quality essential health-care services and access to safe, effective, quality and affordable essential medicines and vaccines for all

Key Performance Indicator (KPI)

3.8.1 Coverage of essential health services