Hello, in this lesson we are going to cover the uses of block chain on the health industry. And this is definitely an industry that needs innovation is to be fixed. There's a lot of problems in within this industry and blockchain can really, really help those problems. So the first thing that can really help do is store patient records. Am I thinking our patient records are already stored wherever they're in paper form, or in some digital form, and you're right, they are already stored. It's not like people are trying to memorize every patient record on the planet.

But let me tell you some examples. So when I was at you University clearly didn't I had to do a u at university when I was at uni versity. I moved to a new accommodation. And when I moved, I registered at the local surgery, I mean the UK. That's the way you have to do it when you move you have to inform them one so they know which one is your new main surgery. And when I got there, and this is the first time I was doing that, so I was 18 years old at the time and I registered with a local surgery.

They said they need my old records. Fair enough. Naturally, they're gonna want the record and they said they have to get them from my old previous surgery and I actually had Had to contact them to send them over. And the process was so frustrating and terrible, instead of just being able to say, Okay, this individual is in the UK, he just moved. This is access to records via some sort of government based system, which is the way should really should be done. Now, again, it's not saying that all of the records were completely just stored by that one surgery, no, some of it was on a higher level, but some of it wasn't.

And they had to contact that surgery and then on top of that, they had to contact my particular doctor there and I think at the time he wasn't there, and as a result, I just delayed things and at university I also moved again several times so you know, for the different you'll also move to London to do a placement year when I was working for a year and the surgery that I actually do the same process again, there was, it was really bad the system was there. I took them like often almost three months to get me registered. So I remember I was ill. And the surgery was like, oh, now we can't really help you because we don't have your records. They say you can go to the hospital. And you can just wait then I just had to wait there for hours. But the local surgery will was saying, you can either wait here and it will take you a long time or go to the hospital at the time, which was nearby, so that was ridiculous as well.

So you can help have patient records have proper audit trail, and actually have access to them. Regardless of what surgery surgery you go to, regardless of where you live even it could go beyond countries. Another example is refugees. And this is a very upsetting example. Cuz we got countries like Syria, and Iraq and there's other countries as well, there are war torn. These are war torn countries.

Unlike my example, my local surgery had my records, but people that are fleeing these countries, so they are fleeing the countries hence why they're refugees, they may no longer have access to their medical records. So perhaps the surgery or the institution that was the same Syria, for example, that had the medical records might be gone now or the actual new country, maybe they're in Germany or in the UK or America, wherever they are, they might not be able to access those records. And I think what's even more troubling is what if somebody were to flee from, let's say, Syria, so they flee from Syria. And maybe they've lost all their family. They, and they get to a new country, they cannot accept the the hospital doctors cannot access the medical records, unless they within one year, they die due to some sort of illness that was easily curable.

If they had the medical records. And this can happen on I don't know certain if it has happened, don't quote me on it. But I'm sure there have been cases where that this has been a problem. And this ultimately leads to it costing more money. So the refugee crisis people moving over is obviously a major deal. And not just refugees, just moving in general moving in general.

So for the example that I gave at university, this will link in with this and also if I'm moving from one country to another, so I'm in the UK, maybe I moved to America lived there for the about one and a half years from there, go to China. And therefore, let's say six months, go to Russia, and then maybe I go to Germany and then I go to a few of the countries. If all of this is accessible by anyone, when I say anyone I mean, like use the patient and access your records, doctors that are meant to be accessing it can access it, and for the medical professionals and facilities can access it. That's what I mean by anyone, anyone that should be able to can access it, regardless of where you are, or where you was, when these records were kept. It'd be an amazing thing.

So that is another cool thing. So this just zoomed out. So this ultimately leads to Global Access, which is the true nature of blockchain and are what we Want for the medical industry? So that's the patient records. Does it go beyond just patient records? And yeah, it does.

You can see a history obviously, of the patient record, but also of doctors, nurses, and other people in general, within the medical industry, you can see where they studied, for example, you can potentially see what they specialized in potentially even who or what sort of cases they've actually dealt with some, maybe you have a heart specialist, and you find that he's actually never done any surgery at all. He's all theoretical. You're thinking, I want someone that's actually you know, being hands on with somebody and actually maybe in the heart transplant or You know, operated on some of these heart so you can see a history of doctors. But this is great from a patient perspective and a medical facility perspective so you can see how good they are almost like a professional, better t v. That's a another cool thing. And in the previous video, which covered the uses of blockchain for retail, we talked about the supply chain ledger for free to go and check that video out the supply land chain ledger, ledger to track where products have been, what materials went into those products where those materials have been handled them, who delivered them, who stored them, what conditions they were stored in, to what materials, made those materials etc, etc till you get to the root material.

Which potentially may have been mined from the ground. If the same thing with this. So you can use the same supply chain ledger technology that is in retail that could be used for selling jumper, for example, for tracking medicine. So you can see the ingredients that go into the medicine, the equipment used for the medicine, how it's been stored, where it's been, and how old it truly is, even though you might have an expiry date, depending on hand how it's stored, it might last longer. So it might be a or left for one year. If it's stored in a particular way, it could last for five years.

So it would help reduce waste. That's a really cool concept. So we won't just be going based on the overall date. We could say, okay, we need to get rid of this medicine because it's been stored in this poor condition. Therefore, you can actually do more harm, cost more money. So that could eventually reduce cost or perhaps it's being stored very well.

Maybe The white temperature not the average temperature the same hospital and as a result it last longer. You can do supply chain ledger for anything so quipment drug, so, medicine and drugs will be tied together heavily all of this world need to the the orphan TriCity authenticity of that good and to see how purity as well in the case of a drug, and often you can track his organs. So you can see the sort of person that had that organ so maybe you're getting lung from somebody and even though that individual had a lifestyle that did a home that maybe their family members iva had a lifestyle or they had conditions that might affect it. So you can not just track where the organs have been, but also the conditions they've been kept in beyond sort of like temperature and the actual physical condition, but the people that were involved as well as a pretty cool thing to be able to track.

And know in this amazing world we live in we have hand held medicore equipment and, and usually the handheld medical equipment is isolated equipment, but this can be used to access all patient records. And that would be amazing. Because whether it's less a really professional handheld device that only doctors use or Something as simple as a phone, because phones have amazing sensors now, they have sensors to be able to check how your how your heart rate to be able to check how fast you're moving, the sort of movement you're doing. So if you're exercising, how many calories on average, you've lost. So using the senses, all of this could be stored on the blockchain. So it could be could go beyond what a doctor or somebody in a medical facility storing.

And you might be thinking, okay, because it's at the moment, it's a lot easier to put that data good or bad. Would that be stored with the other data outside be stored, like a separate piece of data on the blockchain saying this is relative from the consumers device, and as a result, it has less weight but All waiters have a impact and the doctor can see, or the man or any medical professional can see that, okay, beyond the half an hour that they see the patient every two months, how they been going on over the last four months or every five years or so, and how your device has been tracking you not just when you specifically try to track something, but just in general for your everyday day to day. So this overall leads to reduce costs. That record keeping your how, which will lead to help track clinical trial better, instead of just saying, Oh, yeah, these drugs have passed clinical trials, but what were the clinical trials How many clinical trials they have that company done, who was involved in the clinical trials?

How trustworthy are those people again, thought about all the trends going down to the root aspect. And another cool thing is the Internet of Things. So having devices connected to the Internet, and especially automated, because imagine if you, for example, every week, need to go to a medical facility, and you need a machine hooked up to your heart, for example, and he needs to do something and you want to go on holiday, maybe for a month, or you need to go somewhere for a month, and you're no longer going to have access to that medical facility. But there's other medical centers with the Internet of Things. What could happen if you could go to that other medical facility using the blockchain? You can get data Have the patient what that device has been doing.

They could just go there, essentially put in the patient's details and aka the name, and just and a few other pieces of information to get their records up, they get that data see, okay, this machine is actually doing this to the patient. And as a result, they need to have this machine on top so they could hook up machine, I could automatically do it without having to be set. And if that were to change, for example, maybe they figure out that the dosage or whatever they're doing needs to be reduced, then what they could do is just put down to the blockchain. So when they go to the facility or a different facility next week, in May they travel to a different country, it would have those new records and as a result, it would provide accurate may health care so accurate Health care. And this is automated.

So that is an amazing aspect. And last thing, and this is a question you might have on your mind, who will build it? Should an individual build it? Should a company build it? No, not an individual or a company should build it. And you should have government or anything like that should be a consultant.

Realistically, that's the way should be, should be consortium of global governments, of global companies, global institutions, global academic institution, global people. As a result, try to make it as incorruptible as possible. have as many different people with different mindset as possible. So there's not just one agenda, whether it's for profit, or whether it's just trying To manipulate, record and manipulate people's perception of the health industry. So it needs to be a consortium. And I think that's the case with any blockchain global network for any major industry, especially in the healthcare industry.

But ultimately, if it's a global network, it needs to be created by a consortium of people, companies, countries, government institutions, academics from all around the world. So this has just been a video on the use cases of blockchain in the health industry. I know we've covered a lot so if you have any questions, feel free to reach out, go the video again and check out the concepts that we covered. And as usual, thanks for watching, and I look forward to seeing you in my next awesome blockchain video.