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While individual organizations in the public health network share the same overall mission, a complex mishmash of data usage agreements and government privacy rules dictate which members can access information and which ones can modify it.

From Why the CDC Wants in on Blockchain - MIT Technology Review

A blockchain, I guarantee, won’t make any difference to this. Those privacy rules don’t depend on whether you store the data in a spreadsheet or a database and they don’t depend on whether the data is in a shared ledger of some form either.

How should identities, not only patient IDs but also the IDs of public health organizations, be managed on the blockchain?

From Why the CDC Wants in on Blockchain - MIT Technology Review

If Open Banking is a success, then banks are going to fail. One viable picture of the future is of a few giant megabucks sitting in the background, like PG&E or British Gas, while other banks go to the wall and consumers obtain their financial services from Amazon and Facebook.

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