The US is the biggest global spender in healthcare but this didn’t translate to them having the best healthcare delivery system in the world. Countries like Canada and Germany; who spend less in healthcare, are doing a better job than the US. Why more spending does not translate to better healthcare According to an OECD estimate on wasteful spending in healthcare, 20% of global healthcare...
After pulling the plugs on our ICO campaign in May 2019, (read the announcement we published on Medium to learn why we ended our ICO campaign as well as announcements on going on exchange) we embarked on another campaign of intensive re-branding- that saw many things leave, and a number of new things added to Cura Network. To re-position our brand as ICO-free, we redesigned our website, www...
Cura Network was conceived out of a need for a “healthier” medical record system. Our mission is to eliminate the lack of data interoperability; that has plagued the healthcare sector with inefficient health care delivery and deaths. To achieve this, we are using the blockchain (and all available technologies) to build a global decentralized healthcare system. Projects of this magnitude require...
When Satoshi Nakamoto launched the first blockchain network in 2009, he barely knew the power and potential of what he created. Artificial intelligence, internet of things, cloud computing and the blockchain are the 4 technologies that will shape our future. The Blockchain is at the center of this, and this is how. IoT and the millions of devices collecting information on your health (Medical...
Google the words, “what is health insurance”. What you’ll get is a dictionary definition, an article from Wikipedia, a set of video content, and then an article from medicalnewstoday.com, then the millions of other search results. They all tell the same story (in different variation); what health insurance is. Which is an insurance policy that covers the cost of an insured individual’s medical...
You visit a hospital for medical complaints, you’re made to carry out a series of tests. You undergo these tests, you’re diagnosed, treated and given prescriptions, you pay and go. This is the picture of a typical healthcare procedure. what is wrong with this procedure? Can you spot any fault in it? I bet you don’t, but there are tons of them. First, let’s agree on some facts. The information...
Health data are very sensitive; any breach in a patient’s health record is a threat to his life. Extend this to the thousands of health records that a single medical center has. You know what a data breach of this scale can do. Health centers spend millions of dollars in securing their data from attacks. In 2020, organizations worldwide are expected to spend $101.6 billion on cybersecurity. The...
Can You Trust Your Health Records to a Distributed Storage System? Imagine there are 10 million cabinets in an office, each cabinet is owned and controlled by different employees. The employees volunteered their cabinets to be used. All information coming into the office are duplicated for the 10 million cabinets and sent to be stored there. The owners of the cabinets read the documents for...
Prince John was annoyed at the insolence of Robin Hood (who robbed him, pretending as a fortune teller), and offered a price for whoever brings him his head. This was in the 1973 Walt Disney movie, Robin Hood. The money he placed on Robin Hood’s head is called a “bounty”. I believe with the references above, you already know or have an idea of what a bounty is. A bounty is a reward given to a...