A Trusted & Incentivized Platform To Protect The Privacy Of The DNA Donors

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Whenever you visit any hospital to treat a prolonged or severe illness, the physicians will ask you to provide information about your family medical history. Like, they may ask whether someone (father/mother) in your family had any illnesses like diabetes, hypertension, etc. For example, if any of your parents had diabetes or hypertension, then you cannot rule out the possibility of getting that illness because it might be inherited from your parents. That’s why a newborn baby is tested for almost 50 genetic disorders in the US. Have you heard about the down syndrome? It is an example of the genetic disorder. Early in the first trimester, most pregnant women will be screened using ultrasound to check if the baby will develop a down syndrome or not. If it is positive, most of the women will decide not to continue with the pregnancy to avoid the future complications for the baby once it is born.

Today, many DNA companies are promising consumers that they will get a detailed report about their genomes for a price between $500 -$1000. They also claim that the report will contain the list of all illness that may occur to them in future. If you are too much conscious about maintaining your health, then you won’t mind spending money to know about the health-related risks in advance so that you can take preventive medicine. So, you will be happy to give your blood samples to those DNA companies. Have you ever thought what will happen to your blood samples? Is the generated report will be made available only to you? Will you stop eating sugar if the report predicts the possibility of diabetes? No one will do that until a blood test report states that they have diabetes.

Then, what is the need for studying and analyzing your genomes? Ideally, if the researchers in the medical field are able to invent preventive medicine or do something which is beneficial to the humans, then the genome study will be really meaningful. For that, the health care professionals need to preserve the anonymity of the donors and security of the data that is retrieved using the samples. Using the existing centralized system is not secure enough to protect the data. Because if their company server is compromised, then all the data will be breached. That’s why you need to go for a decentralized blockchain based platform like Shivom.

What is Shivom? Shivom is a unique project in the healthcare industry that will provide a secure platform for connecting various players like physicians, hospitals, research institutes, etc. Any individual who is interested to share their DNA related information for research purposes can directly communicate with the relevant healthcare professional and provide the relevant data. And, the ownership of the data is fully controlled by the individual so that no one can hack the same. Sounds interesting? Check out our Website, ANN, Bounty Thread and Telegram to know more information about the benefits of OmiX tokens.

For their valuable contribution to the healthcare industry, those who provide the data are rewarded with a special utility token named OmiX tokens. These tokens are used as the only payment option inside the Shivom platform to access any kind of service. Using OmiX tokens, the users can buy a health insurance policy, get personalized advice from experts, etc.