Dear readers,

We announced the 2nd batch of initial service partners a couple of weeks ago, and at long last, we have reached the final interview for the 1st batch of initial service partners, Klaytn Meets Humanscape.

Humanscape is a blockchain-based patient community seeking to provide solution to incurable diseases by curating personal health data. We visited Humanscape HQ and sat down with Stephen Chang, the CEO of Humanscape.

Klaytn: We’re interested in knowing more about you and and your team, and also what it took for Humanscape to partner with Klaytn.

Chang: I founded Humanscape about five years ago while still in college. I was doing a part-time at a nursing home, from where my interests in medical data and healthcare system developed, which eventually led to founding Humanscape. We had mostly been focusing on operating IT solution for clinics and hospitals, and as our networks and experiences grew over the years, we ventured out to utilizing blockchain technology to develop our DApp.

We have read about Klaytn in media prior to meeting the team in person, and we were very much fond of their inspiring vision and philosophy. Many platform companies out there often seem to be interested in technology only. But Klaytn was looking beyond it. In addition to its advanced technology, Klaytn was dedicated to connecting and integrating blockchain technology with our everyday lives. Doing blockchain not for the technology in and of itself, but for the entire industry and for the ecosystem. This intrigued us.

Klaytn: Can you tell us more about your blockchain service?

Chang: I’d like to start with offline communities. There exist many different offline patient groups, communities, and associations, and in almost all cases, they are made up of serious patients with incurable or rare diseases. Through these communities, patients build up networks, get emotional support and comfort, and sometimes even trade the most buzzed-about medicine or disease-related information. The communities also function as a data hub where numerous invaluable medical data can be generated by patients. These data, however, are currently fragmented and scattered around different patient communities on certain diseases due to lack of a solid platform. And we Humanscape seek to collect, organize, and systematically integrate patient-generated health data in a single platform.

These data can be useful for pharmaceutical companies and clinical institutes to conduct medical research, clinical treatment, or gather target patients, ultimately contributing to helping patients to combat diseases. The medical experts too can gain valuable insights and provide precisely targeted treatment to each patient, while the researchers can conduct efficient incurable disease-related researches and drug development based on the real data shared by patients, thereby ultimately contributing to providing solutions to unconquered diseases.