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Blockchain Startup’s Digital Identity Solution Made Available to 50,000 Zimbabwean Patients – Technology Bitcoin News

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Flexid Technologies, a blockchain startup promoting the use of digital identities, said its solution was recently used by thousands of Zimbabwean households and patients that participated in a local health survey study. Using Technology to Drive Down the Cost of Healthcare A blockchain startup, Flexid Technologies, revealed it recently made its digital identity solution available to 15,000 households and 50,000 patients that took part in a Zimbabwean baseline survey. The survey was conducted between 2021 and early 2022 by a local healthcare provider, Ubuntu Clinic. In his remarks published by…

Sanofi-GSK COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout Delayed Due to Low Efficacy with Older Patients

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Apparently, Sanofi noted that the vaccine was more responsive to younger patients, particularly those below 49 years. After months of intense vaccine development, jointly developed coronavirus vaccine by Sanofi SA (Euronext: SAN) and GlaxoSmithKline PLC ADR (NYSE: GSK) will not be rolled out as planned due to technical reasons. According to a statement released by both companies, their experimental coronavirus vaccine failed to show sufficient efficacy in older patients, particularly those over 50 years. Hereby pushing the rollout from mid next year to Q4. “We have identified the path forward…

Critical Coronavirus Breakthrough Seeks Blood from Recovered Patients

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Wuhan reportedly has cured patients with coronavirus by injecting plasma from recovered individuals. The breakthrough could help minimize the outbreak in key areas like Hubei. President Xi Jinping said China is seeing progress in combating the outbreak. Wuhan is said to have treated individuals in critical condition affected by coronavirus by injecting blood plasma from patients that have recovered from the virus. First big milestone in containing coronavirus in China Dovey Wan, founding partner at Primitive Crypto, shared a brochure from local hospitals in Wuhan asking for blood donations from…

Blockchain Startup Solve.Care Partners with Uber to Transport Patients

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Blockchain healthcare startup Solve.Care has partnered with Uber Health to transport patients, Solve.Care announced in a press release shared with Cointelegraph on July 9. Per the release, Uber Health’s transportation services will be integrated into Solve.Care’s personal healthcare coordination and administration app Care.Wallet. Within the app, patients will reportedly be able to schedule an Uber Health ride, which claims to be compliant with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996. Furthermore, patients will also be able to pay for the service with their Care.Wallet and share the costs…

Global Pharma Giant Develops DLT-Based Care Network for Diabetes Patients

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А leading pharmaceutical firm Boehringer Ingelheim has teamed up with blockchain-based healthcare platform Solve.Care, according to a press release shared with Cointelegraph on June 6. Germany-based Boehringer, one of the world’s 20 largest pharma companies, and Solve.Care are planning to build a blockchain and digital asset-powered network for trusted sharing of data about patients with diabetes. Based on Solve.Care’s blockchain platform, the new healthcare system is known as the Diabetes Care Administration Network. The network intends to provide assistance in coordinating care for patients, as well as to share information…

Bitcoin ‘Dementia’ Patients Worship Judas Iscariot

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By CCN: Billionaire pals and colleagues Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger doubled-down on their bitcoin haterade at the 2019 Berkshire Hathaway annual shareholders meeting. Munger said bitcoin fans had invited him out for a drink this weekend, but he didn’t even consider it because he thinks they’re all traitors. “I’ve been invited during this gathering to go to a happy hour put on by the bitcoin people. And I tried to figure out what the bitcoin people do in their happy hour and I finally figured it out: They celebrate…

Former GP surgery secretary fined for reading medical records of 231 patients in two years

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A former trainee secretary at a GP surgery has been fined after she admitted unlawfully reading the records of 231 patients in two years. Hannah Pepper was employed at the Fakenham Medical Practice in Norfolk in August 2015 and her duties included lawfully accessing medical records to assist doctors, solicitors and insurance companies. However, despite being trained in the legal and ethical requirements for patient confidentiality, the surgery discovered in October 2017 that she had been reading a work colleague’s patient file without consent. A subsequent investigation by the surgery…