The UAE's Ministry of Well being and Prevention (MoHAP) along with the Ministry of Presidential Affairs, Dubai Healthcare Metropolis and different
The UAE’s Ministry of Well being and Prevention (MoHAP) along with the Ministry of Presidential Affairs, Dubai Healthcare Metropolis and different related authorities has launched a blockchain-based well being information storage platform.
In keeping with The Emirates News Agency on Feb. 2, the blockchain-based platform goals to enhance the effectivity of MoHAP and different well being authorities’ sensible well being providers. It would assist customers streamline the seek for well being services and its licensed medical and technical personnel, in addition to inquire about medication provide chains.
In keeping with Dr. Lubna Al Shaali, the Director of the Public Well being Coverage Division, the brand new information storage blockchain platform will assist safe an unchangeable, decentralized and encrypted database with high-security safety to confirm information validity and reliability.
Per the Ministry’s plans for introducing synthetic intelligence (AI) into well being providers, the platform will even comprise AI functionalities. “The AI-based tasks will play a key function in enhancing the capabilities of well being care providers and offering sensible medical options, in accordance with the UAE Centennial 2071, and its synthetic intelligence technique,” stated Dr. Amin Hussein Al Amiri, Assistant Undersecretary of the Ministry of Well being and Prevention’s Public Well being Coverage and Licenses.
The UAE has been taking the initiative in blockchain expertise
Cointelegraph reported earlier this month that 80% of presidency entities within the UAE’s have began utilizing blockchain. Prior to now a number of months, the Division of Financial Improvement in Dubai has announced its transfer to a blockchain-based unified enterprise registry platform to enhance the benefit of doing enterprise in Dubai and allow license issuers to handle commerce licenses and company registries.
Being decentralized, safe, clear, and environment friendly in managing information, the healthcare sector can profit tremendously from blockchain expertise. But, there are a number of challenges forward too, equivalent to the way it can adapt to real-world functions on the subject of regulation, privateness, enterprise and supplier and affected person relationships that are distinctive to healthcare.