[kictanet] Snippets from the BlockChain Conference happening now at Strathmore

Fri Dec 16 10:51:41 EAT 2016

Interesting viewpoints.

While thinking about DLT I think the consequences of DLT will be most profoundly felt in Infrastructure where developments relating to Identity, Privacy and security are taking shape.

From this user cases benchmarking will be done and other industries will plug in.

As a point to note we currently don't have have any benchmarking white papers on DLT all we have/hear are "elavator pitches" on what it "can" do. I did engage Vitalik ( Ethereum Co-founder) and he said we will probably start seeing this in the coming year.

This however will continue to be an I stressing space.

Regards,

Eric 
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> On 16 Dec 2016, at 10:41, Ngigi Waithaka via kictanet <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
> 
> Stuart,
> 
> I would be interested to know what you are doing in healthcare. We have quite some experience implementing healthcare solutions.
> 
> Onto Distributed Ledger and their polar opposites, Centralized Ledgers (what we call databases), I would think most healthcare solutions would work from a centralized database pretty well. This is based on the fact that you don't have 'credibility' issues with centralized medical data I would presume.
> 
> For Land Records, however, the balance shifts to distributed ledgers as *authenticity* of the centralized databases is always a major problem here. 
> 
> The biggest problem is knowing that the land certificate (Title) that one holds is the only true one, if it gets changed, then everyone interested in the certificate is notified and the history of such changes are 'attached' to the certificate.
> 
> Rgds
> 
>> On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 10:27 AM, Stuart Houston via kictanet <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>> Hi Erick,
>> 
>> I believe blockchain can be applied to medical records. We are currently programme managers for MoH and WHO in deploying a county-wide, and possibly later a nationwide, electronic health management system for public health facilities. One of the challenges comes with trying to ensure security and authenticity while the patient visits multiple health centres and hospitals in the county. 
>> 
>> BC could be used to 
>> 1) Ensure their medical records can't be interfered with, guaranteeing their authenticity (important for insurance, legal cases and the person themselves).
>> 2) Help confirming the patient's identity so as to link new records to existing ones, no matter the facility they are being treated at.
>> 
>> Maybe BC could be the answer, maybe not, but certainly worth investigating!
>> If there's someone interested in working with us on this let us know.
>> 
>> Regards
>> 
>> Stuart Houston
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>>> On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 10:03 AM, Erick Mwangi via kictanet <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>>> Listers,
>>> 
>>> While this is certainly huge - it's important to note Blockchain is not applicable to everything - it's a Time stamp distributed ledger. The key word is Time stamp where an existing authority is not "trusted". I can definitely see the land registry angle however am not too sure re medical records, the question would be what/why is being solved.
>>> 
>>> Wish someone from the CSs team would give us the reasoning behind this.
>>> 
>>> Eric
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Sent from my iPad
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>>>> On 16 Dec 2016, at 02:17, Mwendwa Kivuva via kictanet <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
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>>>> 
>>>>> On 15 December 2016 at 10:37, Ali Hussein via kictanet <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>>>>> 2. Other uses for BlockChain being considered by Government. 
>>>> 
>>>> Land registry, education records, and medical records.
>>>> 
>>>> According to CS Joe Mucheru.
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