BioPassport Need to manage
Medical data is needed not only for patients and healthcare institutions, but also for various institutions and individuals across society. A good example is a medical researcher to a civil servant in charge of public health policy. In order to present effective healthcare policies as well as disease treatment, consistent and reliable data needs to be accessed. The need for efficient data access is particularly emphasized in times of crisis such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Because we need to access the patient’s data as quickly and accurately as possible in the moment of life-or-death crisis. Currently, personal health records are the least accessible data, and only primary healthcare providers can access them. The agency’s proprietary information management system is quite inefficient in situations that require quick and accurate response.
There is also the benefit of current policies that strictly protect information security and patient privacy. Because medical records are the patient’s most private and sensitive information. This is the time when there is a need for information exchange methods that can increase access efficiency while maintaining security.
Companies such as Google and Amazon, which are not formal medical institutions, are also aware of the aforementioned problems in the medical community and are conducting investments and research to find solutions to them. The fact that Google and Amazon, which are global companies, have jumped in proves that the aforementioned demand exists worldwide. It is also possible to predict that the demand for unprocessed medical information will continue to be created as new business opportunities increase in the field of medical records. The BioPassport project was created by capturing the opportunity to solve problems in this trend.
