The problem Medical Blocks solves

Imagine a future where you walk into a hospital without carrying any medical records, the doctor requests it, you approve it on your phone. Gone are the days waiting for Insurance claims, taking minutes instead of hours. This is possible with Medical Blocks, with hospitals, insurance agents and diagnostic centers on one platform.

The current healthcare system is very centralised, unorganised and relies on the user (patient) to keep track of their medical records. Hospitals make their medical records and provide a copy to the patient. The patient then has to manage all their records by themselves - organise, keep track of them and provide appropriate records to the hospital when required. Fragmented patient medical records are very inefficient and cause inaccuracies across the breadth of the healthcare system. The story is similar for the diagnostic centers that create and provide patients with more medical records to manage.

The aim of this project is to provide the patient full control of their medical and insurance records so that they choose when and whom to share it with, resulting in a seamless interaction, and swift medical care. The use of blockchain ensures that all organizations access the same record and no one can tamper them.

Patients

Patients can view and grant access to their medical records to other organizations (hospitals, etc.) and revoke access with biometrics, thereby improving the overall experience and data security.

Hospitals

Hospitals can easily request for medical and insurance records, and once the patient authenticates, this data is provided to the hospitals with ease

Diagnostic centers

Centers can create and attach medical records to a patient.

Medical insurance companies

In case of claim, the hospitals can easily raise a request, subsequently after patient authentication, a request would be forwarded to the insurance providers, and a quick digital scrutiny over the data, allows for faster and seamless claim.

Challenges we ran into

1. Trying to deploy HyperLedger was the biggest challenge we ran into. We found some written guides in the Coursera course for Blockchain, and that helped us a lot to solve this challenge.
2. Understanding the whole ecosystem of Hyperledger Composer, we've watched hours of videos on YouTube to learn this new platform, and it gets interesting everyday.
3. We are still learning how to implement biometric on web-apps
4. Our team is still trying to learn TypeScript and Angular, as we like to explore new languages for every hackathon.