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HTK

Once the patient has access to their own EHR this will enable the following key features to be used in conjunction with the HealthLink platform:

Telemedicine Consultations

Telemedicine, an online consultation with a doctor and patient using a webcam interface, is set to be the future of consultations.

HealthLink not only provides this established and successful format of consultation, but will accommodate the doctor by enabling them to interact live with the patient’s records during the consultation. Patients would grant access to their records during the Telemedicine consultations, allowing for a more in-depth, informative, and valuable experience for both the patient and doctor. There are also further benefits from the telemedicine experience which HealthLink delivers. Telemedicine platforms available today offer online visual consultations but do not have access to longitudinal health records. HealthLink offers this unique value and provides patients with privacy controls. Patients will be able to choose the level of detail visible and allocate viewing rights to their chosen doctor for as long as they feel necessary.

Health Data Marketplace Control

As with the founding principal of HealthLink, patients should have control over their health records, and they should also benefit from the potential value that they possess. HealthLink will connect research institutions with users who are willing to have their health data used in studies in a health data marketplace. Users will be given clear information as to how their data is being used and what data will be required. In many cases anonymised data will be permissible, ensuring the privacy of everyone involved.

In return, participants will be compensated in HTK. Patients will be given the ability to unlock the monetary value that their health data holds, they will be more engaged with their health conditions and the next generation of cutting-edge medicine will be empowered.

Pharmaceutical and research companies will also benefit from the changes brought in by HealthLink. They will be able to seek out patients who have opted into being contacted by researchers so that these institutions can interact directly with the patient. By doing so, companies will no longer need to approach a hospital or clinic and can go straight to the people whose information will be used. Not only will this increase efficiency, but it is a more transparent process that strikes a relationship which is symbiotic and sustainable. There would be a few broad categories of data leasing agreements though more are likely to evolve over time. Here are a few we envision:

• One time leasing. Institutions will use APIs provided by HealthLink to pull relevant data from participants from our servers.

• Longitudinal studies. Institutions that need to see data over a period of time will be able to ask users to stream their data. Example: how many steps users have walked per day or what their heart rate looked like today.

• Collated data. HealthLink would combine normally disparate data sources and provide easy access to these data sources with user consent.

• Ongoing anonymised data offerings. Users could opt in to have their data anonymised and labelled as accessible to research institutions interested in it. Institutions would have the ability to filter by broad categories (e.g. 40-50 year old, 25+ BMI, male) and users would be paid every time their data is accessed.

Potential Insurance Integration

Users could allow health insurers access to their health records. In turn, insurers could rest assured that the information they are making decisions upon is trusted, verifiable and patients could be rewarded for their transparency in the form of lower premiums. Moreover, patients could pledge to a set of health goals with their insurer and be rewarded as they hit milestones associated with those goals. Regular weight and blood pressure measurement uploads, proof of therapy compliance and attendance at a gym might incentivise rewards from health insurers with lower premiums or rewarding users with HTK.