Hello Shenshen, Thanks for your comment. Yes, health care is another use case for the blockchain. The Bitcoin scenario is currently the best representative for public blockchain networks. I guess health care would be an example for a consortium blockchain. Except for the fact that it is a use case, do you have more info's on any special requirements concerning ALTO?
Kind Regards, Stefan -----Original Message----- From: Shenshen Chen [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 13 March 2017 15:45 To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Subject: [alto] Draft: Alto for the blockchain Dear authors, In draft-hommes-alto-blockchain-02 section 5, it mainly talks about bitcoin. Would you be glad to add another section about health care? The healthcare has a great interest in the blockchain. A doctor needs patient’s record from different hospitals. A patient cares about the security of his medical record. The blockchain could be the solution since it keeps secure data in a distributed, encrypted ledger and control who has access to that ledger. It treats a doctor’s visit as a transaction. Then people validate the transactions—in health care, likely a physician or pharmacist trusted with an access key. More use cases make the draft more general, especially about “be aware of different roles for bitcoin”. Rules in healthcare are patient, doctor and hospitals. Those roles may be treated as wallet, miner and relay nodes. By showing other use cases of blockchain still use those standard roles, it’s more convincing to claim that Alto should be aware of those 3 different roles. Hope this helps. Best Regards, Shenshen _______________________________________________ alto mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/alto
