The “Shared Data Space for Socio-Healthcare Continuity, Emergencies, and Research” is a collaborative project that will allow each patient to have their unified health and medical insurance data index.
The patient or their legal guardians will be able to consent to a service from the UNID Foundation receiving notifications whenever any entity generates health-related data about the patient (hospitals, nursing homes, etc.). This consent will be recorded on the blockchain network, linked to a unified health identifier for each patient and to other identifiers they may have across different territories and organizations (national identity document, passport, driver’s license, patient identifiers, etc.).
Thus, the various socio-health entities will know where to send notifications for updating the patient’s international data index. The notification includes the section of the index to which the data corresponds and the web address where the patient and other authorized individuals or healthcare services can access this data.
Socio-health services will also be able to request access to specific patient data, which is stored in different entities but linked in the patient’s international data index along with the consents recorded on the blockchain, all in compliance with data protection laws and European accessibility regulations. This is a paradigm shift in global healthcare, and it is especially useful for the elderly, people with disabilities, and in emergency situations.
Patients will also be able to authorize various services and healthcare professionals to access all or some sections of the data linked in their index. Additionally, through the UNID Foundation’s data anonymization services and the international Research Data Sharing protocol, the patient can also authorize newly generated data to be securely anonymized for research purposes.
This collaborative initiative, which aims to expand to more organizations, involves the UNID Foundation (unid.es), Clúster SIVI (clustersivi.org), Accuro Technology (accuro.es), and ConnectHealth (connecthealth.info), who provide advanced technology. This technology includes the Universal Unified Health Identifier protocol (patented in the U.S. and in the process in other countries), blockchain registration of access permissions, quantum-resistant data signing and encryption algorithms, and tools for data standardization, security, and anonymization, ensuring a robust and reliable ecosystem. The project has been invited to the xTechInternational event on innovation, cybersecurity, and quantum technologies, organized by the U.S. Department of Defense, to be held in Madrid on August 23.
