Dock has been developing secure and scalable Verifiable Credential technology since 2017. BurstIQ implemented Dock’s Verifiable Credential technology to make their health data secure, portable, and verifiable. This shows three BurstIQ use cases that demonstrate the importance of Verifiable Credentials in blockchain and health care.
TL;DR
When it comes to patient privacy and security, health care providers face many challenges. One major problem is that their data is often held in siloed systems that are not interoperable. As a result, important health information can be scattered across multiple, disconnected repositories, making it difficult for doctors and other medical staff to access and use the data effectively. Also, these systems are often vulnerable to cyberattacks, putting patients' private information at risk of being stolen or compromised. Verifiable Credentials and blockchain are technology solutions that can play a key part in helping health data management systems ensure privacy and security.
BurstIQ is a company that provides blockchain-enabled data solutions for the health care industry. BurstIQ implemented Dock’s technology in order to turn any health data into a Verifiable Credential that is portable and secure while enabling their customers to respect users’ data privacy and data ownership rights. The company’s LifeGraph platform enables businesses to manage sensitive data while complying with people’s data rights and gives people ownership and control over their personal information.
Blockchain technology is becoming increasingly popular in the health care industry. The secure and decentralized nature of blockchain makes it an excellent tool to enable the fast verification of health data, which is not stored on the blockchain itself. Patients store their own data. This health data can include everything from patient records to biometric information and genetic profiles. This innovative technology can be used to make it easier for health care providers and researchers to access the information they need while giving patients more control, ownership, and privacy of their data and how it is used.
Blockchain can help health care organizations streamline their operations by eliminating the need for manual verification of employee credentials and patient records. Blockchain enables users to easily create electronic records that are cryptographically protected from tampering or modification. The technology plays an important role in facilitating medical research, accelerating hiring processes, improving patient care, and ensuring the privacy of medical information.
BurstIQ is a platform as a service that gives organizations the ability to build health apps, work apps, life apps, and data exchanges. Verifiable Credentials enable BurstIQ to manage LifeGraph data and securely share that data with any third party within and outside of their system in a way that can truly be trusted by the recipient. The recipients can see the signed and attested data.
Verifiable Credentials are a digital, cryptographically secured version of both paper and digital credentials that people can present to organizations that need them for verification. A LifeGraph is a digital expression about people’s, places, and things and how this data interacts with other people, places, and things. The data is turned into smart data that can be packaged up as Verifiable Credentials and shared with relevant parties within and outside of the LifeGraph system.
Dock’s Verifiable Credential technology solutions include our Certs API and Dock Certs platform which have advanced privacy preserving strategies. BurstIQ chose Dock over other providers because our Verifiable Credential technology was:
When the Dock and BurstIQ leaders met, there was an immediate chemistry over the shared values and vision that Verifiable Credentials shouldn’t just capture singular events like a degree, but reflect a person’s lifelong learning journey and all the skills acquired along the way.
Below are a few use case examples that demonstrate how Verifiable Credentials are being used by BurstIQ.
This is an example of how Clarinda, who is a nurse, uses applications powered by LifeGraph to easily manage and securely share her data.
2.When we go to her core profile, it shows all of the data that Clarinda has in her LifeGraph, including her licenses and certifications.
3.All of the data is signed, attested, and verified. When we click on a license, you can see that it was checked by a verification company.
4.When you click on “SHOW PROOF,” you can see all of the signings and attestations of the data confirming that it hasn’t been altered and that it is trustworthy. BurstIQ manages trust by using blockchain technology to provide the mechanisms for that data to be verified by a trusted entity or system generating the data.
5.Clarinda can securely share the data with an employer or someone else.
It will be exported as a zip file on her local drive.
2.If we click on her Written Communication VC to see more detail, you can see what level she has acquired in that skill and what she’s done to get there. She could download the VC in JSON to share with someone else’s wallet, an employer, or a prospective employer. She can do so with the privacy and security that’s inherent to LifeGraph.
When Dr. Charles needed to hire staff, she was not able to tell if candidates were really qualified for a role just by judging from their resumes and interviews. Many candidates often said they had the appropriate experience, but she only found out later while they were doing the job that they weren’t as qualified as they came across during the hiring process. The consequences of hiring an unqualified person could result in harmed patients.
She wishes that more employers, training institutions, and educational institutions were issuing Verifiable Credentials. If this happened, she would have more trust and confidence in a candidate’s abilities in the hiring process. If there were two candidates who had similar presentations in their resumes and interviews, she would hire the one with Verifiable Credentials.
Burnout is a major problem in the health care industry and turnover affects organizations’ ability to deliver health care. It is also very expensive to replace and retrain nurses. The average cost of turnover for a bedside nurse ranges from $28,000 to $51,000 USD and the scale of this turnover across the health care industry costs about 6.5 million USD per year.
To address this issue, BurstIQ is partnering with a major university to help develop personalized digital experiences for nurses by designing LifeGraphs for them. LifeGraphs give nurses full control of how their personal data is being used and they can share data however they feel is appropriate.
With Verifiable Credentials, health care organizations can develop insight about their staff to address the issues leading to burnout to improve retention, upskill the new generation of nurses, efficiently record their skills and experiences, and build more trustworthy employee experiences.
People build their apps on top of LifeGraph technology. Because their layer 1 is a BurstIQ product that interacts with other types of blockchains, including Dock, interoperability is important when the company works with a partner.
Dock’s integration enables BurstIQ to provide decentralized identities to any LifeGraph and decentralized identity becomes the foundation of the Verifiable Credentials they can produce for skills, employment records, and so on.
Verifiable Credentials and blockchain technology are essential in enabling patient privacy and securing health data. BurstIQ is leveraging blockchain and Dock’s Verifiable Credential technology to turn any health data into Verifiable Credentials that are portable, secure, and maintains data integrity as it moves within and outside of the LifeGraph system.
自2017年以来，Dock一直在开发安全和可扩展的可验证凭据技术。BurstIQ实施了Dock的可验证凭据技术，使其卫生数据安全、可移植和可验证。这展示了三个BurstIQ用例，演示了可验证凭据在区块链和医疗保健中的重要性。
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在病人隐私和安全方面，医疗保健提供者面临许多挑战。一个主要问题是，他们的数据通常存储在不互操作的独立系统中。因此，重要的健康信息可能分散在多个不同的、未连接的存储库中，使医生和其他医务人员难以有效地访问和使用数据。此外，这些系统通常容易受到网络攻击，使病人的私人信息面临被盗或被泄露的风险。可验证凭据和区块链是可以帮助医疗数据管理系统确保隐私和安全的技术解决方案。
BurstIQ是一家为医疗保健行业提供区块链启用数据解决方案的公司。BurstIQ实施了Dock的技术，以将任何健康数据转化为可验证凭据，这些凭据是便携和安全的，同时使他们的客户尊重用户的数据隐私和数据所有权权利。该公司的LifeGraph平台使企业能够管理敏感数据，同时遵守人们的数据权利，并赋予人们对其个人信息的所有权和控制权。
区块链技术在医疗保健行业越来越受欢迎。区块链的安全和去中心化性质使其成为验证健康数据的快速工具，这些健康数据未存储在区块链本身上。病人存储自己的数据。这些健康数据可以包括从病人记录到生物测量信息和基因图谱等所有内容。这种创新技术可以使医疗保健提供者和研究人员更轻松地访问他们需要的信息，同时让病人更好地掌控、拥有和保护他们的数据及其使用方式。
区块链可以帮助医疗保健组织通过消除员工证书和病人记录的手动验证来简化其运营。区块链使用户能够轻松创建电子记录，这些记录受到密码学保护，以防篡改或修改。该技术在促进医学研究、加速招聘流程、改善病人护理和确保医疗信息隐私方面发挥着重要作用。
BurstIQ是一个平台即服务，可以让组织构建健康应用程序、工作应用程序、生活应用程序和数据交换。可验证凭据使BurstIQ能够管理LifeGraph数据，并以可以真正被接收方信任的方式与其系统内外的任何第三方安全共享该数据。接收方可以看到签署和证明的数据。
可验证凭据是人们可以向需要它们进行验证的组织呈现的纸质和数字证书的数字、密码学保护版本。LifeGraph是关于人们、地点和事物以及这些数据如何与其他人、地点和事物交互的数字表达。这些数据被转化为智能数据，可以封装为可验证凭据，并与LifeGraph系统内外的相关方共享。
Dock的可验证凭据技术解决方案包括我们的Certs API和Dock Certs平台，具有先进的隐私保护策略。BurstIQ选择Dock而不是其他提供商，是因为我们的可验证凭据技术具有以下特点：
当Dock和BurstIQ的领导人会面时，他们立即共享了有关可验证凭据不仅应捕捉单个事件（如学位），而且应反映人们终身学习历程和沿途获得的所有技能的价值和愿景的化学反应。
以下是演示BurstIQ如何使用可验证凭据的一些用例示例。
这是一个例子，展示了Clarinda（一名护士）如何使用由LifeGraph驱动的应用程序轻松管理和安全共享她的数据。
2.当我们进入她的核心资料页面时，会显示Clarinda在她的LifeGraph中拥有的所有数据，包括她的许可证和认证。
3.所有的数据都经过签名、认证和验证。当我们单击一个许可证时，您可以看到它是由验证公司检查的。
4.当您单击“SHOW PROOF”时，您可以查看数据的所有签名和证明，确认它没有被修改，是可信任的。 BurstIQ使用区块链技术为那些由生成数据的受信任实体或系统验证的数据提供了验证机制，从而管理了信任。
5.Clarinda可以安全地与雇主或其他人共享数据。
6.您可以从她的资料中看到她可以共享的各种类型的数据。她可以选择要共享的部分。