Healthcare finance guru's will tell you that cryptocurrencies value is in the payment of services. They are wrong. They don't understand.
Health data is an asset. A very sensitive personal asset. Today that asset is used for 100's of purposes without a consumers knowledge. The asset is being used for gain in health care, incentive payments to health care corporations and new models of care where individual patient level identified data is needed to managed health care utilization.
The benefit of Blockchain, and ledger-model crypto currency is the auditing capacity. Knowing when, where, for how long and what purpose your health data is being used. When ledger auditing becomes a health care essential technology, human health care data will become a currency in itself. The more data I contribute, the more value or return on my investment.
So, while very smart healthcare finance experts may think that bitcoin will simply be a currency to exchange for health care services....they are wrong.
I own my data. It is my asset. The value belongs in our hands and the return on investment is a benefit to me as a consumer of the health care system. I reinvest my data for research, quality and population health activities so that I benefit, my cohort and my population benefit...thereby creating a learning health system based on consumerism and value created by the individuals that participate.
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