[fpanettieri]

First, lack of trust doesn't imply bad actors in the system.

Second, a blockchain creates a decentralized public ledger. Patients can be owners of their records, and sign to share access. There is already a working implementation of this technique in Filecoin.

Third, PoW is the 'new technology', a blockchain is just a data structure. e.g., Binary trees are no good for the U.S. healthcare system.

I know there are politics involved, but we are not politicians, why not try to solve the problem with the tools at hand?

[maxxxxx]

There may be some use of blockchain but it doesn't solve the problem of incompatible data formats. That's the real problem.

[lostlogin]

Combined with the need for change. Reports are regularly altered and amended. How would this be handled?