e-Health and Healthcare Innovations

A big portion of data that are produced by various digital ecosystems has met a lack of interoperability (i14y) on the line between applications, data streams and competitiveness of healthcare services. Th e new technology approach in the distributed messaging and blockchain became a key component of many technology stacks and can derive real-time data streams as valuable and scalable enough to enable real-time analytics that leads to improved productivity. Ingesting data streams from various sources, patterns of data can extend health trend analysis to the higher level of prediction, accuracy and improve models that suff er from complex and long-running analyses. Some of the known issues that produce lack of interoperability: Lack of i14y between eHealth solutions; reduced communication among task analyst; source complexity on eHealth domains; possibility of interference; diff erence in architecture/platforms; confl icting standards; heterogeneous landscape of eHealth systems in EU; no unifi ed coding systems; lack of balance between the allocation of the costs and the benefi ts of semantic i14y. Th e purpose of this research was to determine a possible bridge solution or a technology platform that can place blockchain as interoperability gap solver. With its principle of non-centralized data collection, non-central database, but sharing and distributing data across networks with the possibility to add and at the same time avoiding data alteration, blockchain becomes a player in the eHealth and in digital healthcare. From the early buzz of the healthcare it has become lately a promising technology that is able to jump into healthcare interoperability story.