Local blockchain company focuses on verifying, protecting patient data

She continued, “The promise then was that each enterprise course of may benefit from going peer to peer…. That didn’t pan out.” 

Nashville-based firm Geeq is one among 17 tech startups chosen to be part of Nashville Entrepreneur Center’s Project Healthcare accelerator program lasting from January by way of June this yr. So spoke with the Submit forward Venture Healthcare’s Thursday panel occasion. 

So thinks of Geeq because the “subsequent generation” of blockchain know-how. The software program works in tandem with well being care databases to validate and defend affected person data shared throughout techniques inside a hospital whereas maintaining a safe report of transactions.  

Google, for instance, is just not peer to see as a result of it will probably alter which ends up are proven to the consumer primarily based on the corporate’s personal incentives. Block chain networks are extra dependable, she defined.

So stated Geeq focuses at the start on safety, in search of vulnerabilities to cyber assaults. Domestically primarily based well being care system HCA Healthcare and, extra not too long ago, well being tech company Change Healthcare have been targets of such assaults. 

“There’s a lot knowledge coming at us from all instructions, and it is all getting collected someplace, and it is a bit overwhelming,” So stated. “Geeq … says ‘Let’s attempt to simplify the method.’ Not give attention to all the things, each potential little piece of information, as a result of not all knowledge is created equal. You need those that basically matter, and for these knowledge you want actually dependable know-how — it’s going to maintain working, whether or not you get cyber assaults or not. It should maintain working even when somebody tries to insert faux data.” 

So stated Geeq’s know-how can work in tandem with synthetic intelligence in well being techniques and is maybe wanted extra acutely in that setting as a result of it’s vital to get affected person knowledge proper. Geeq additionally verifies knowledge to ensure it’s correct and the supply is thought. AI can come to its personal conclusions primarily based on the data it’s given, whereas Geeq makes positive knowledge is correct and effectively sourced. The method is completely predictable, she stated. 

“With Geeq, [we can] validate the supply coming from a selected licensed doctor on this space. After which as a substitute of sending it throughout these centralized mechanisms that get attacked, or any individual could overlook to fax it, it’s going to go straight by way of this blockchain community and arrives safely on the different finish very predictably on the different finish intact,” she stated.