Back pain intervention already discovered

MediChain, the medical blockchain big data platform, brings dispersed patient data together to improve diagnosis and treatment for individuals, and to allow analysis of big data in the search for new treatments and cures.

Allowing individuals to access and control their own medical information, which often comes from different systems, doctors and hospitals, is transformative itself, avoiding countless individual tragedies where inaccessibility of information leads to misdiagnosis and incorrect treatment.

But perhaps even more exciting is the prospect of new discoveries in how to prevent, treat and cure conditions that currently defeat scientists and doctors.

Clues to medical breakthroughs can be hidden in the mass of data that exists about patients, treatments and outcomes, but if the data is dispersed, these clues cannot be found.

Bringing patient data together in Australian pain clinics has already led to the discovery of a low cost intervention for back pain by MediChain’s Dr Nick Smoll. This is a sign of things to come as MediChain goes forward.

MediChain’s existing partnerships will next allow improvements to the way CT scans are used to help patients. Where currently doctors look at a scan and score severity on a scale of whole numbers, which is subjective as well as coarse-grained, machine learning will bring fine grained and objective, reproducible assessment, which will allow better management of disease. Patient data for this is already being brought together and our partnership with Wolfram will contribute world-leading artificial intelligence for the analysis.

As MediChain moves forward with partnerships across networks of hospitals and electronic health record system providers, analysis of big data relating to hundreds of millions of patients will reveal patterns and trends that cannot currently be seen. As with the back pain discovery, these are expected to lead to breakthroughs that directly help patients and make better use of medical resources, including in major causes of death such as cancer, heart disease and stroke.

See more about MediChain at https://medichain.online