medicalchain

Abdullah: We have provided access to the Discharge Summary application free of charge and are continuing to support more hospitals as time goes by. We would love to onboard the same hospitals in the UK and others with our Medicalchain platform. However, the NHS, like most large organisations is a very slow moving beast therefore we have taken a bottom up approach. With Discharge Summary we let the junior doctors use the system first, in time this was accepted and adopted by the heads of departments and became the standard. We want to on board patients and doctors as soon as possible to improve scalability and establish Medicalchain's use. Saying that, we are still talking to decision makers in the NHS to start the ball rolling. Trusts make decisions over several hospitals so would be the best to tackle. We have Dave in our team who was the Head of IT at Salfords Hospital Trust and I myself sit on a board at NHS Digital so we have some connections already.

Abdullah: Thank you for your support. Both Mo and I are married to dentists so I know exactly where you're coming from! We are currently onboarding medical doctors for our platform and focusing on this clinical group. Our onboarding of doctors requires them to be registered to their medical board, so in the UK for example, the General Medical Council (GMC). They also have to have the appropriate indemnity insurance, no outstanding investigations and up to date training. In time, we will on board dentists using the General Dental Council (GDC) for example. However, saying that the patient can still show you their records in your clinic as they have access to them with our platform.

Mo: We do not see Medicalchain as a big data company. The data is being used to provide convenience and accuracy between two or more parties. Because it is a permissioned blockchain, the data is not available to anyone but those the patient gives access to. So the short answer is our strategy would be indifferent. With regards to your last question, do you mean people selling their PHI for mass research and earning a basic minimum income? If so, I don't see this as being viable.

Abdullah: For the foreseeable future, no. We are not competing with established EHRs. Instead, we are an umbrella encompassing all of the records different EHRs hold for a single patient and making that information accessible. We do have big ambitions and if we can deliver on our first objectives then who knows after that.

Mo: you're welcome!