Blockchain can be used to track the whereabouts of oxygen tanks.
REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA — The Covid-19 pandemic has become a major disaster for humanity. However, there is always a lesson in every crisis. In the context of a pandemic, technology blockchain turned out to be able to prove itself as a technology full of potential that can be used to suppress the spread of the corona virus.
According to Tokocrypto COO Teguh Kurniawan Harmanda, the Covid-19 pandemic is a global health problem. The pandemic affects not only people around the world, but also industrial sectors and companies.
It turns out that this is able to encourage the acceptance of innovative technologies such as the application of blockchain in health care.
“We know blockchain suitable for use in the health sector because a lot of health-related data is generated. In addition, there is also a lot of data that needs to be tracked,” said the man who is usually called Manda.
According to her, blockchain has now been implemented by various global health agencies. Among them, at the US Center of Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization (WHO) to track patients and victims of Covid-19.
“When we use blockchain, we need to ensure that patient data will remain secure as it will be encrypted and decentralized. So, people cannot manipulate and also edit data,” he said.
Furthermore, according to Manda, blockchain can also be implemented for various needs. Examples of other use cases, such as storing patient data, medical history, and as a means of transferring secure data, to managing the supply chain for medical devices and drugs.
From a research perspective, blockchain can also contribute data, while researchers can process data from reliable sources. Manda believes, the use of technology blockchain can mitigate risks and optimize resources during a pandemic.
Blockchain also has the ability to maintain the credibility of the data because it is not altered without proper authorization. Thus, the process of securing data, such as processing medical records will be useful. Not only for patients, but also for hospitals, the public sector, government and industry.
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