Biopassport Decentralization

BioPassport implements blockchain technology as the solution for effective and secure data management. The first half of 2019 saw one of the largest healthcare data breaches to date with over 25 million health records compromised, all stored on centralized databases containing personal information. This was more than the total number of breaches in the entire year of 2018. With personal healthcare data breaches on the rise, the need for a more secure system for storing health data containing personally sensitive information is imminent. DID technology is squaring up to be the best contender for the basis of such a system. DID uses a system of digital verification and keys to ensure that private information can only be accessed by the person to whom that information belongs.

The DID system is at the core of the BioPassport platform, ensuring users that none of their sensitive data can be accessed without their permission. Thus, users can input data regarding their health into the BioPassport system with ease of heart. By doing so, users will be building up their own decentralized personal health records (DPHR). The importance of the PHR was discussed in the previous section. A DPHR fulfills all of the necessary requirements of mobility, accessibility, consistency, and above all, security