I'm going to have to give you a bit of background about myself before I go into my new idea for Monero (you'll see why in a sec). I'm currently interning at a hospital to be a cardiovascular technologist, and studying to become a heart cath technologist/electrophysiologist.

Today I was in a lecture and we were first talking about radio imaging system and how they've developed over the years to become a totally digitalized platform. That part of the lecture then turned into my professor talking about the importance of the HIPAA act and how the new issue with everything being digital now and days is the fact that it can become a little easier to steal records of patients. Now that could be everything from medical records, to social security numbers, and everything else about the patient. Everything now are stored on PACS (Picture Archiving and Communication Systems) servers that are used around the hospitals on computer to computer clients for the purpose of getting data transferred to the appropriate physician easily and quickly. This is done without the use of hard drives or USB's coming to play, which is benefitial due to the inconvenience of having to go retrieve them for use. The problem with this is the issue of security, and I think Monero's network could possibly be a way to help.

I'm not trying to get a crowd fund or anything, this is more specifically directed at fluffyponyza and the core dev team. I believe Monero's way of transferring currencies in a secure and private manner could help a lot of issues other than just creating a decentralized currency; it could help transferring any data in a secure and better way overall. I feel there are a lot of businesses, including hospitals, that could benefit from the secure transactions of data. This use of Monero's networking system could be brought to the table for a lot of these businesses, and put Monero's network in the spotlight for being secure, not just a way for sketchy drug dealers to transact money more anonymously.

I'm sure we all on here have heard the news that banks are now trying to use and benefit from a blockchain type of platform to help transactions of money around the world a lot easier and have a better way to track transactions. Why can't we try and present to businesses that with this type of platform, the same things that they would want from a normal blockchain platform could be achieved with even MORE security measures put in place.

Personally I think this will put Monero on the map.

I did some research on the recent PACS that are in use as of right now and this is what I found:

https://www.sectra.com/medical/about/conformance_statements/pdf/pacs_hipaa_statement_17.1.pdf

http://www.sectra.com/medical/

It looks like the sectra's platform is the current PACS that are in place at hospitals all over now. When it comes to encryption and that kind of stuff, I'm clueless; so I wanted to get this information out to you guys for the sake of striking up conversation and having new ideas being developed amongst the Monero community. Hope this gives you an "outside the box" look on things and the potential uses of Monero's networking system.

Regards,

Harpua