Healthcare

The healthcare industry has a wide range of use cases that can be explored, including the pharmaceutical supply chain, clinical trials, and electronic health records. We will focus on this last use case, as it is closer to our heart (literally).

The promise of electronic health records has always been appealing, and the benefits at first glance seem to be numerous:

  • Complete view of the patient's history: By eliminating the inherent duplication of paper-based records, the patient should get more accurate diagnostics and receive more coherent long-term care, all in a timely fashion
  • Reduction in duplication: Whether from duplicate tests being requested by different doctors or the fact that every clinic and hospital has to maintain ...

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