It provides a secure, scalable way to manage patient records, streamline medical research, and enhance data security across the healthcare ecosystem. Crucially, blockchain enables a unified system where patient records can move seamlessly across providers, across continents, ensuring a continuity of care wherever the patient is located. By offering an immutable and interoperable ledger, blockchain enables healthcare stakeholders—from physicians to researchers and pharmaceutical companies—to trust the accuracy and security of their data while maintaining compliance with industry standards.

Protecting and Empowering Patient Health Data

Cyberattacks on healthcare systems are becoming more frequent, directly impacting patient safety and trust. Last year, the NHS faced multiple cyberattacks, including those affecting NHS Dumfries and Galloway and Synnovis, disrupting essential services. Many healthcare providers still rely on outdated, fragmented storage systems, making them more vulnerable to breaches. Blockchain technology offers a much-needed alternative acting as a secure, time-stamped log of all interactions with sensitive data, making it easier to track changes and prevent tampering. Companies like BSV Blockchain are already leading the charge in applying blockchain to healthcare, ensuring secure solutions that provide greater control and security over vaccination records and other verified health data.

At the same time, patients deserve greater control over their own medical data. Blockchain allows them to set access permissions for their records, ensuring only authorised providers can view specific information. By eliminating third-party data custodians, blockchain restores trust in patient privacy and enables seamless, secure data sharing across healthcare platforms.

Patients can even grant temporary access to their records when needed, keeping control over who sees their data. This feature enhances interoperability within healthcare systems while ensuring that personal information remains protected. Additionally, blockchain’s scalability enables hospital networks to manage vast amounts of medical records efficiently and cost-effectively.

Accelerating Medical Research

Medical research thrives on data, but too often, that data is scattered and inaccessible. Scientific literature, clinical trial data, and genetic research are typically siloed, making collaboration difficult and slowing the pace of innovation. Blockchain simplifies this by enabling real-time data aggregation and secure sharing, all while preserving patient privacy.

Blockchain simplifies research agreements—like those between hospitals and pharmaceutical companies for clinical trials—by securely recording and automating them. This reduces paperwork, speeds up approvals, and makes collaboration between institutions more seamless. Researchers can gain access to verified datasets without compromising data integrity or patient confidentiality. This means faster breakthroughs, smoother trials, and life-saving treatments getting to patients more quickly.

Managing the Medicine Supply Chain

Beyond securing patient records and advancing research, blockchain is also making a tangible impact in pharmaceutical safety and supply chain management. Counterfeit medicines pose a serious risk to patient safety. In fact, a study from The Pharmaceutical Journal found that around 15,500 falsified medicine packs were identified in the UK’s authorised medicines supply chain over just two years. Ensuring the authenticity and traceability of medical products is crucial for manufacturers, healthcare providers, and patients alike.

Blockchain enhances supply chain security by creating a permanent record of every transaction, from raw material sourcing to distribution. Each medicine can be assigned a unique, time-stamped identifier, allowing healthcare professionals to verify its authenticity before administration. This level of traceability helps manufacturers and distributors maintain accountability while keeping counterfeit drugs out of the market.

The Future of Healthcare Security with Blockchain

Blockchain technology is already making healthcare more secure, scalable, and interoperable. By ensuring real-time, trusted data access for providers, researchers, and patients, it has the potential to redefine digital healthcare infrastructure. As cyber threats and data privacy concerns grow, the need for robust, blockchain-based solutions is more urgent than ever.

For healthcare professionals and organisations looking to enhance security, streamline research, and improve patient experiences, blockchain offers a proven and scalable solution. Now is the time to explore its potential and lead the next wave of digital healthcare transformation.

By Calvin Ayre, Founder at Ayre Group

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The UK’s Mental Capacity Act of 2005 promotes personal agency in medical decision-making where possible. The act respects autonomy while considering individual capacity and circumstance. But of course, in cases of sudden accidents or incapacitating medical conditions, a patient may lack the ability to make decisions regarding their care and the decision-making power falls to the next of kin.

This can put a significant emotional burden on the next of kin, particularly when the health preferences of loved ones are unknown. Such situations can result in emotionally charged choices, sometimes even leading to family disagreements, a scenario that could potentially be avoided if individuals had an easier way to share their care preferences.

In turn, this can create challenges for healthcare professionals who are relying on the care preferences being shared with them so that they can take the right course of action. And, of course, the most concerning risk is that the personal wishes of the patient aren’t followed.

Privacy vs Access

When thinking about preparing for the future, in a medical sense, there can be a mental ‘tug of war’ between keeping medical preferences private vs providing potential caregivers with access. Sharing end-of-life medical preferences, for example, can cause emotional distress to loved ones, which an individual may wish to avoid until absolutely necessary. And of course, there’s always the chance that our preferences may change, which could cause confusion and lead to disagreements.

The common saying that ‘timing is crucial’ rings true when sharing preferences about care. That’s why it’s critical that people prepare their medical documentation and guidance around their care wishes, so their loved one have the information to hand when they need to make those decisions.

A new approach to digitalise the sharing of one’s medical preferences post-incapacitation involves a digital trustee process. Saving these important documents down in a secure file, the trustee release control process only grants the designated beneficiaries access when a trustee confirms that the original owner of the document is incapacitated, and the information needs to be transferred over.

At its heart, this technology empowers individuals to distribute their private health information when others need to make informed decisions regarding their care. This affords people control over their private healthcare information, which many of us prefer even when it comes to our closest friends and family members.

Empowerment through digital trustee planning

In a whirlwind of daily activities, thinking about the future – particularly our future health or lack thereof often takes a backseat. Take the fact that just 44% of Brits currently have a Will. Many of us do not take the time to plan for what happens if and when we become ill or pass away.

But of course, incapacitation is rarely anticipated. So, embracing this sobering truth and selecting a strategy that communicates health-related decisions to next of kin can empower all of those involved in decisions making.

The digital trustee process serves as a way of arming loved ones when they potentially need to make important medical decisions in the unfortunate circumstance that their next of kin falls ill or has an accident. And in contrast to writing such wishes on paper notes, for instance, which can get lost or might be hard to access when needed –  this encrypted approach makes the process secure and seamless.

Technology in the healthcare industry has improved numerous medical procedures, but people and their families should also think about how they can use it to prepare for the moments when they will need to give people more control over their healthcare decisions.

By solving the privacy vs accessibility dilemma when it comes to personal healthcare data, it’s possible to imagine a future where the use of the digital trustee process becomes the norm and where one’s medical preferences can be securely and privately stored, then shared. In this vision for the future, we will also be able to offer a greater sense of dignity to those in need of care.

About the author

Paul Rossini is the CEO and Co-Founder of AssetPass, the world’s leading digital asset platform. Paul has over 14 years of experience as a pioneer in the crypto space and as a leading innovator for Digital Legacy, having built the first ever digital trustee company back in 2009. AssetPass is transforming digital asset recovery and digital legacy management with an end-to-end encrypted platform with its unique trustee release control process (TRCP) that empowers individuals to pass on their digital assets securely and privately to beneficiaries.

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GTHE is a secure, peer-to-peer, decentralized network that facilitates teleconsultation services between patients and physicians, across geographical boundaries, and features instant search, availability, and digital payments.

Secured by blockchain, GTHE is the first digital network of its kind, with high levels of privacy, and a global payment facility based on the SOLVE token. GTHE allows any physician who wishes to practice telemedicine to publish their rates, qualifications, and availability, and is instantly accessible to patients on their mobile phones via the Care.Wallet application.

Pradeep Goel, CEO of Solve.Care, said, “We firmly believe that blockchain has the power to revolutionize telehealth and healthcare. We are making GTHE available in five continents. Our innovative use of blockchain and digital assets addresses the real challenges patients and physicians are facing today when trying to find, access, and pay for healthcare services. The need for secure and efficient patient centric healthcare has never been more pronounced, and we are proud that GTHE is now available to many who need it to take better care of themselves and their loved ones.”

He continued, “It is a significant milestone for the blockchain, digital assets and digital healthcare industries. Using blockchain, we are able to enforce the sovereignty of both physicians and patients, while providing unparalleled data security and instant payments.”

“GTHE uses blockchain and digital currency to dramatically improve access, transparency, and auditability of all consultations, always maintaining rights and privacy of patients and physicians. GTHE tracks data ownership and data use, where patients consent drives record sharing, treatment plans, billing, and payment, doing away with repeated and unnecessary forms, and greatly streamlining the delivery of healthcare.”

Physicians around the world are signing up for GTHE to help minimize administrative work, leaving more time to practice medicine. The solution provides users with seamless medical records sharing and facilitation of continuity of care.

Solve.Care has also announced the creation of an ambassador network in over 30 countries, made up of qualified and respected clinicians who are actively engaged in helping GTHE become more physician friendly.

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