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by feral 3544 days ago
> No one is advocating putting medical records on the blockchain. That's crazy.

The post I responded to seemed to be.

It implied the data would be "distributed upon 5,000+ worldwide nodes in an immutable data ledger", and said it would:

"be there forever" "keep the data accurate and accessible"

I think its legit to call this out. Blockchain is a great technology, but its being hyped as if its the world's only distributed database.

> This can be used to verify the integrity and approximate timestamp of the data.

That may indeed be beneficial, but isn't the panacea that is being touted.

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"That may indeed be beneficial, but isn't the panacea that is being touted."

We agree. That's the primary conclusion of the report.