We at AfyaRepo are pretty excited about the rapidly evolving landscape in the Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) sphere, be it Blockchain or Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG). Here is a technological…
What is IOTA IOTA tangle for medical records but what is it? IOTA is a Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) not based on the blockchain but on the ‘tangle’. Is the…
Blockchain for Health Records The main spur for the development of technology to secure sensitive records (including personal health records was a major cyberattack that Estonia suffered in 2007. The…
Telemedicine programmes in East Africa, like other parts of the developing world, have been attempted for decades. For most African countries, poor communication infrastructure; the prohibitive cost of equipment and…
A case for Cardano as the ideal blockchain platform for Medical Records in Africa Blockchain: A crowded space Cardano can secure medical records in Africa (and elsewhere).The blockchain and, more…
eHealth and blockchain scalability: The Trilemma It is impossible to look at eHealth and ignore the blockchain scalability challenge. Vitalik Buterin, the Ethereum founder, coined the term ‘trilemma’ referring to…
Blockchain and eHealth are a perfect match. Countries of the East African Community namely Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya, South Sudan and Rwanda have set a goal of pursuing telemedicine and…
AfyaRepo is the perfect eHealth and telemedicine platform. Every healthcare provider across the globe aspires to provide person-based care. We agree. You cannot separate high quality care from person-centred care.…
