Re:Blockchain Healthcare 2016 Report – Promise and Pitfalls
by waynevaughan on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @07:06PM
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"That may indeed be beneficial, but isn't the panacea that is being touted."
We agree. That's the primary conclusion of the report.
The post I responded to seemed to be.
It implied the data would be "distributed upon 5,000+ worldwide nodes in an immutable data ledger", and said it would:
"be there forever" "keep the data accurate and accessible"
I think its legit to call this out. Blockchain is a great technology, but its being hyped as if its the world's only distributed database.
> This can be used to verify the integrity and approximate timestamp of the data.
That may indeed be beneficial, but isn't the panacea that is being touted.