Healthcare Radius – December 2018

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TECHNOLOGY

1. Security is a
   major concern for
   any healthcare
   data, especially
   when it’s about an
   individual infected
   by a communicable
   disease.

I

n today’s globalised world, disease

outbreaks do not stop at national

borders. A health threat anywhere is

a health threat everywhere. Efforts

taken by the United Nations (UN), World

Health Organization (WHO) and Centre

for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

in conjunction with the healthcare efforts

taken up by various Governments,

NGOs, research institutions, pharma

companies and others have managed

to reduce the impact of communicable

diseases and as per the 2016 WHO data,

lower respiratory tract infection is the

only communicable disease that features

in the list of top 10 diseases causing death,

Ensuring security

Estimates suggest that 10% of the global GDP to be stored

using blockchain by 2027

BY MOHUA SENGUPTA

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