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> 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.




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

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




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