# Estonia plans to put health records on a blockchain **Category:** [open forum](https://openhealthhub.org/c/open-forum/9) **Created:** 2016-03-05 09:00 UTC **Views:** 1598 **Replies:** 1 **URL:** https://openhealthhub.org/t/estonia-plans-to-put-health-records-on-a-blockchain/153 --- ## Post #1 by @adrian.wilkins http://qz.com/628889/this-eastern-european-country-is-moving-its-health-records-to-the-blockchain/ I'm not too sure about the notion of putting the whole record in a blockchain - which by necessity has to be publicly accessible for all it's users - but I can see the value of maybe putting timestamped cryptographic signatures on a blockchain - a kind of public digital notary, if you will. --- ## Post #2 by @malcolm_newbury blockchain is more suited to distributed ledger problems e.g. a student team in Edinburgh is working on a blood tracking use case: http://blockchain.bankofenglandearlycareers.co.uk/ So there must be other ‘critical commodities’ like organs, vaccines, expensive drugs, etc which would be suitable for blockchain control. --- **Canonical:** https://openhealthhub.org/t/estonia-plans-to-put-health-records-on-a-blockchain/153 **Original content:** https://openhealthhub.org/t/estonia-plans-to-put-health-records-on-a-blockchain/153