Blockchain Tracks Activity: Project Rewards Healthy Habits With Tokens

Blockchain use cases continue to grow as the world learns about the benefits blockchain has to offer. In addition to bringing financial innovations like peer-to-peer transaction capabilities, blockchain is now making its way into the health industry.

Health experts have created a way to track and store health data using blockchain technology. Health Blocks CEO Rosanne Warmerdam told Cointelegraph that her team has developed a way for users to generate and store patient health data without sacrificing privacy and security.

“We wanted to start by giving users ownership and control over their health data,” Warmerdam said. Built on top of the IoTeX blockchain, their platform, Health Blocks, collects lifestyle-related health data from wearables and other smart devices , and connect it to a decentralized health record.

The project also rewards users when they reach their fitness goals. "We want to make healthy living fun and rewarding, provide tools to improve health, and provide access to health services for all," Warmerdam said.

Users can earn tokens as they achieve their health goals. According to Warmerdam, “When a user reaches a fitness goal of 10,000 steps in a day, a smart contract is triggered that sends tokens to your profile.”

Meanwhile, a Mexican medical company is using blockchain to verify coronavirus test results. MDS Mexico utilizes this technology to avoid falsified results. The team verified the results of the new coronavirus test through blockchain and encrypted signatures. This is easily verified by securing the information with a unique, immutable QR code.

In the medical field, blockchain already has many use cases, but many predict that it will have more breakthroughs. While discussing new potential crypto and blockchain use cases, billionaire Mark Cuban also shared his theory on how decentralized autonomous organizations could be applied to deliver medical procedures like colonoscopies.

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