At a Th press briefing, blockchain-based document security visitor Transcrypts announced a partnership with Doctors Without Borders, or DWB, that began on October 14th. Working together, they have already uploaded 6500 immunization records to the blockchain, with a goal of 76,000 by 2022.

Most of the recorded immunizations are COVID-19 vaccines, but the visitor stated that the goal is to eventually store all patient medical records on the blockchain where they volition be accessible from a patient's telephone. The nascent California-based startup was founded last year past Zain Zaidi — then even so an electric engineering student at San Jose Country University. The company now counts Paychex, ADP, Zoom, Spirit Airlines and Oracle every bit its clients.

Transcrypts began as a tool to combat resume fraud marketed to human resources professionals, earlier expanding into income verification for landlords. At present, the house said that it views itself as a full service documentation service. The DWB partnership is its offset foray into medical records. Previously, Transcrypt had found that HIPAA and other compliance laws essentially barred blockchain as an acceptable method of storage for medical records within the United States.

Speaking on the accessibility of patient medical records in developing nations, Zaidi said that blockchain could provide significant assistance in preventing many unnecessary deaths:

"In India over 700,000 people die every year from the lack of access to a patient's medical records. A majority of these deaths could have been prevented if physicians had access to a patient'south comprehensive health care records. With this partnership, Doctors Without Borders and TransCrypts hopes to build a future where this loss of life can exist mitigated."

This is not the first time COVID-19 vaccination records have been stored on the blockchain. Cointelegraph reported in January about veChain'southward launch of a program to practice so at a large hospital in Republic of cyprus.