Medipedia.io is a blockchain based healthcare startup that was started by a team of enthusiasts with the aim to make it easier for medical tourists to find and connect with good-quality and reliable medical services providers, especially when visiting a foreign country for treatment. The team developed a blockchain-powered decentralized platform which provides decentralized (independent and free from authorities) access to medical treatment information to anyone in need. Here’s how it works.

What is the problem?

The problem with the existing medical tourism sector is that the medical information is mostly in control of hospitals and institutions such that medical consumers cannot easily access transparent information when in need. This makes them unable to get the best care at a crucial time as they can only get their hands on the information that is processed by the hospital.

How does Medipedia solve the problem?

Medipedia is a decentralized platform which uses the blockchain technology to automatically store and encrypt all transactions that occur within the platform. All these transactions are accessible to all the users on the Medipedia platform in a completely transparent way so that both patients and medical institutions can access any medical record for any genuine purpose.

For example, if a patient needs to share his medical records with a new doctor to ensure the right treatment, they can get those records from the Medipedia platform, given that those transactions were performed here. Similarly, a medical institution or doctor can access the medical records of a patient, with their consent, to ensure the best treatment according to their medical case history.

Medipedia thus provides a better and more transparent way to manage the medical information so that it becomes easily accessible to everyone.

The decentralized nature of the Medipedia ecosystem ensures high security of the medical data, information and user transactions against any unauthorised access. All the patients and users on the platform are given limited rights that enable them to access particular data for a particular purpose only.

Besides granting access to reliable and transparent medical information, the Medipedia platform also enables medical consumers to connect with good doctors online and even consult with them over a particular issue. This is beneficial as patients can find and choose the best doctor by comparing many specialists and then go forward to make an appointment with the one they chose. This not only reduces the cost for consumers but also ensures high-quality and verified services for the satisfaction of all involved parties.

By now, you must have understood that the basic purpose of Medipedia is to make it convenient for users to gain access to any kind of medical service information at any time and from anywhere via an internet connection. This is why the platform stores useful medical information and transactions provided by various medical providers and contributed by doctors in a decentralized, distributed blockchain database which is public yet highly secure.