Page 5 - Decentralised Application News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

IIT Madras develops blockchain-based medical data system for mobile app 07 May 2021 | News This system is currently being field-tested at IIT Madras Institute Hospital Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras researchers have developed ‘BlockTrack’, a first-of-its-kind blockchain-based secure medical data and information exchange system for a mobile phone-based application. This system is currently being field-tested at IIT Madras Institute Hospital. The project has been undertaken with CSR support from Infosys originating during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic last year...

The project, initiated in 2019, had CSR support from Infosys Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras have developed “blocktrack”, a blockchain-based secure medical data and information exchange system for mobile phone applications. The system is field tested at the Institute’s hospital. The project originated during the height of COVID-19 in 2020 has CSR support from Infosys. Blocktrack aims to securely digitising healthcare information systems while protecting sensitive personal information and medical records by decentralising control and ownership of patient data t...

INTRODUCTION The historical antecedent of man is inundated with changes orchestrated majorly by man's quest for a better and easier means of survival. Starting from the era when according to Thomas Hobbes, "t he life of man was solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short"   to the modern technological age, change has remained constant in almost all spheres of life. This quest for change led Satoshi Nakamoto 1 in 2008 into developing a new technology offering, 'Bitcoin Blockchain'. It is widely believed that Blockchain (BC) could potentially be a significant driving force behind the next wav...