PULSE NETWORK - THE FUTURE OF WORLD MEDICINE

adekogbe (53)in #polkadot • 4 years ago (edited)

Introduction

"Health is wealth" we have already popular saying from time to time because for us as humans our health is very important to our existence. Since the beginning of time, we humans have always found innovative ways to improve the general state of our health. From the time of traditional medicine to the development of sophisticated medical procedures.

Right from the era of traditional medicine till today, medical practices have always aimed to extend and improve the quality of human life.

In terms of market size, the medical industry is one of the largest in the world. According to CMS data, the national healthcare spending in the United States alone rose to over $3.8 trillion in the year 2020. This can easily translate to tens of trillions globally and it's still increasing.

The world medical industry is a very massive and important one. However, even with the level of investment and innovations in medicine, the medical industry still has a lot of shortcomings. One of these shortcomings is the efficient availability and accessibility of medical data to medical professionals and pharmaceutical companies.

In the existing system, medical and research companies have to constantly comb through a lot of paperwork to access research data from other companies and most times will have to carry out their in-house for data that is already available from research already done by other institutes. Also, patient information lacks a secure platform where it can be shared between authorized medical professionals globally.

Pulse Network

Pulse Network is a new groundbreaking medical data sharing and storing platform. This is a decentralized platform that has been created to provide an easy and seamless transfer of medical information between medical professionals.

Pulse Network is an infrastructure that will project the provision of quality healthcare to the next level through the blockchain.

As a truly decentralized platform, utilizing blockchain and AI technology, medical data that was previously restricted to research institutes can now be available to doctors globally helping to improve the quality of healthcare provided to patients anywhere in the world.

Importance of the blockchain

Pulse network is built on the Polkadot blockchain and is governed by a smart contract

Since its development Blockchain has a reputation of security, this security extends both to data stored on the blockchain and in transactions. This is very important in a field like medicine where every single piece of information is of the highest importance, by using the Blockchain for the development of this platform, the Pulse network has ensured that the data transferred cannot be altered, tampered with, or intercepted by unauthorized people.

Smart contact used in the development of this platform means that human error is eliminated for the processes that keep this system running.

The Polkadot ecosystem is very important for the functionality of Pulse Network, unlike other traditional blockchains Polkadot of a Defi platform that allows for the integration of different projects together in a way that is taking decentralized finance to the next level. By using Polkadot to develop the Pulse network, the project team is creating a decentralized medical platform that can easily be integrated with other components of human life like insurance.

What Pulse Network Offers

Pulse Records, the electronic clinical record framework, is made with cutting-edge operability. It is committed to clinical professionals to help them upgrade the conveyance of clinical benefits. It effectively accumulates huge loads of data in a mission to help the arrangement of cutting-edge medical services.

The Pulse application will gather information from top clinical innovative work organizations, specific treatment bases, and labs on the globe to guarantee new creations are made available on the platform. The pulse network's AI comes into full effect in the proper arrangement of data, and makes easy retrieval when needed. Clients will likewise be urged to share their clinical history and records as Pulse intends to collect a secret stash of valuable clinical data.

It acts as the much-needed link between information and aptitude and gives specialists an entryway to get to data on the most recent exploration discoveries, medicines, and some more.

This is a progressive project that will take our clinical area to the following level by giving a consistent progression of information and progressed care.

A Glimpse of What Pulse Network is capable of

Treatment of rare illnesses
While making my research on the importance of this project, I found an article about an 8 year old girl named "Hannah Sames" who was suffering from a rare illness called "Giant axonal neuropathy (GAN)". This is a sickness in which her body wasn't producing any protein due to the effects of two deletion mutations in Hannah's DNA.

The effect of this sickness can be likened to ALS in children and if it is left untreated, she will eventually loose the function of her body parts and her internal organs will shut down.

In 2016 Hannah was treated and cured of this sickness in a clinical trial through the use of gene therapy.

There are millions more people in the world who suffer from rare illnesses and not all of them are qualified to get into clinical trials like this. Some of these rare illnesses can be treated or better managed when doctors, surgeons and other medical experts can get information and historical data of different researches that has been done and results of clinical trials that have been performed all over the world.

That is the quality of what Pulse Network offers. Applications of pulse network can also extend to developments of drugs and vaccines. Shortly after the corona virus outbreak was declared as a global pandemic, the world's pharma giants all embarked on the quest to develop a safe vaccine that will protect us against the virus.

With a platform like pulse network, where all the needed information can be easily assessed by the scientists and medical research professionals, the research time can be reduced and the drug development process for such vaccines can be made to e more efficient.

Conclusion

Pulse network is not the same as the normal Blockchain projects since it handles these issues of medical care at the source and creates a innovative and lasting solution.

This is a platform with a huge potential to grow and disrupt the medical-blockchain ecosystem.