Bio Passport Solution & Platform
The “Health Passport” This section of the paper introduces the BioPassport “health passport” platform and its built-in DPHR, or decentralized personal health record, as part of the solution to the issues laid out in the above section. BioPassport is BioPassport Coin’s telehealth platform and mobile application which has multiple features and functions which will be outlined below. BioPassport comes integrated with test kits for COVID-19, lung cancer, and atopy, allowing users to partake in remote health monitoring on a subscription based model. The platform is built around DID (decentralized identity) technology to help users create their own DPHR allowing for secure, accessible, and consistent management of data. The design of the platform takes user incentives into account.
The platform is built around DID (decentralized identity) technology to help users create their own DPHR, or decentralized personal healthcare record, allowing for secure, accessible, and consistent management of data.
On the user end, the BioPassport platform and mobile application has two main functionalities. On the one hand, it is a health tracking application and mobile DPHR. Users will be able to input health data regarding more standard features such as heart rate and step count, and other features specifically designed for BioPassport such as COVID-19, lung cancer, or atopy test results. On the other hand, the BioPassport application will be able to serve as a “health passport” that may be used while traveling to verify one’s health using information that the users themselves input onto the platform using the mobile application. Especially with the rise of COVID-19, the state of any client’s health, particularly in regard to infectious disease, is of increasing concern to travel related businesses and institutions such as airports, hotels, and travel agencies. With the health passport functionality, clients will be able to verify the state of their health at given health checkpoints throughout their travels. Such functionality is especially important given the economic effects of limited travel due to COVID-19.
BioPassport can be broadly categorized as a decentralized telehealth platform. Generally speaking, telehealth is the use of technology to strategically bridge the gap between the patient and the clinician in a way that makes intuitive the management of one’s own health. One of the most common telehealth procedures is known as remote patient monitoring. Clinicians use remote patient monitoring technologies where the patient uses a certain technological model to input health data remotely, such as from within the home. A major benefit of such procedures includes providing the patient with a greater degree of comfort as examinations do not have to take place at the clinic. Besides comfort, there are a number of reasons why a patient might want to distance themselves from the clinic, especially in the midst of the COVID-19 health crisis.
The other major benefit of these kinds of procedures is that it provides a more constant stream of data to the clinician which aids in developing appropriate treatment programs. Even so, remote patient monitoring technology on its own does not solve the issues of accessibility of data and secure, efficient data management. BioPassport solves these issues by bringing remote patient monitoring and PHR to the same place in a way that is comfortable and intuitive for patients, and in a manner that is secure, mobile.
