CDC and IBM Watson Health to cooperate on healthcare blockchain

The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC, agreed to collaborate with IBM Watson Health, ETHNews reports. The chief science officer of IBM has told that this mutually beneficial collaboration will be partly based on results of another partnership of IBM with FDA – the United States Food and Drug administration.

Previously, the interest in healthcare blockchain was demonstrated by Xerox when two curious patents were found on the official USPTO (American Patent and Trademark Office) website. Those patents described a system of encrypted electronic documents based on the blockchain, and we have no reason to believe that IBM, creative as it is, would not have come up with something similar to this technology.

Some governments are also having an interest in the blockchain healthcare solutions. For example, Russian Ministry of Health has recently voiced the plans about implementing such a system in hospitals, making the paperwork much more optimized.