Cures is a decentralized platform to tackle the enormous challenges faced by global healthcare industry today. By utilizing blockchain technology, Cures wants to deliver quality and affordable healthcare services to people no matter where they live. Cures will develop a distributed platform accessible by patients as well as infrastructure to enhance the work and collaboration of stakeholders in the industry. By decentralizing the healthcare industry through blockchain technology, Cures hopes to sustain the maximum use of limited healthcare resources, foster trust and transparency in health record-keeping as well as become the next-generation launchpad for healthcare practitioners.

Current challenges of the healthcare sector

The global healthcare system struggles with age-old problems as well as modern challenges caused by rapid technology changes and globalization. In some developing countries, the healthcare infrastructure is inadequate and sometimes non-existent, leading to low standards of life and untimely death. Developed economies may boast of modern healthcare solutions but still struggles with high cost of obtaining healthcare, lack of transparency in handling medical records as well as letigations in medicine. The challenges of global healthcare industry are many and well-documented. Here are a few:

1. Cost: This looks like a global problem in the healthcare sector. Obtaining medical treatments in most places is costly. The few available healthcare services in poor communities are beyond the reach of the average income earner, leaving them with few options such as self medication and gradual, eventual death. Developed economies have better healthcare infrastructure. However, high cost of specialized treatment and obtaining medical equipment limits the ability to obtain healthcare services by everyone.

2. Inadequate infrastructure: Mainly a challenge in developing areas, there are obsolete healthcare facilities and lack of skilled health personnel. As a result, obtaining standard healthcare treatment becomes nearly impossible. Patients have no choice than to manage the facility on hand. In some rural communities, there are no hospitals, health professionals or proper equipment. Hence, the health of people in such areas is affected.

3. Limited access: This could be as a result of few healthcare facilities available to serve a very large community. As a result, crowds of health-seekers flood the limited facilities and it takes long to obtain health treatment. Also, the distance to a standard health facility could be far, making them inaccessible to patients.

4. How to settle bills for treatment abroad: For the few who are able to obtain treatment beyond borders, the payment gateway becomes a challenge. High exchange rates imply that there is not enough to pay for international treatment. It gets so bad that in some places, there is virtually no way pay for bills to obtain treatment abroad.

5. Health records logistics: This is critical area that has lead to the death of patients. Healthcare technology vary from place to place as well as infrastructure. How to store and tranfer health records have hindered many sick people from obtaining specialized treatment. One healthcare facility might store patient records in a way not supported by the next facility that needed the record. This lack of unified data transmission capability might stop a healthcare service in its tracks.

The above is not an exhaustive list but represents some of the current challenges facing the global healthcare industry. These challenges must be quickly addressed as they have a fatal impact on the standard of health of people globally and results in high mortality rates. Read on and see how Cures will tackle these problems and provide a level playing ground for all stake holders in the healthcare industry.

The solution - Cures

Cures will provide a distributed platform for all stakeholders to take advantage of blockchain technology and smart contracts to provide and obtain affordable healthcare services. The Cures platform will utilize blockchain distributed networks to let patients that are seeking healthcare have quick access to health facilities and infrastructure. Being an all-inclusive platform for all stakeholders, Cures will build capacity in health service providers and other stakeholders to efficiently collaborate, add value and maximize scarce resources in the sector to deliver optimal healthcare delivery. Cures will break boundaries and overcome glaring challenges in today's centralized healthcare sector, helping to foster international cooperation in healthcare management and advancement in various aspects of healthcare delivery.

To achieve the above noble vision, Cures is built upon 6 major components each of which play a crucial role in decentralizing today's healthcare industry. The image below shows each of these six pillars. The next section will take a closer look at how each of them contributes to an all-round healthcare delivery ecosystem facilitated by blockchain technology.

The Six Core components of Cures Ecosystem

1. HAPPS: One of the main pillars of Cures, the health apps store is a collection health dapps for patients to use for health management. In-house apps such as the game-changing vision software by Cures will be available for patients to make use of it. The HAPPS will also be a launchpad for developers of health apps to freely deploy their apps and take advantage of the already-made market. In this marketplace, users can find a variety of health apps such as ones for sight, hearing, heart health, blood monitor and overall health management apps.

2. EHR: Electronic Health Records is the second pillar of. Here, patient records are captured and immutably stored on the blockchain. There are several benefits to using blockchain technology to capture, store and distribute electronic health records. For example, because of the sensitive nature of health data, privacy is maximized by using blockchain. Patients have ultimate control of their health information as they have the key to unlock it. Additionally, blockchain technology is secure. This reduces the possibility of theft or accidental disclosure of such sensitive data. Because of the distributed nature of blockchain technology, patient health records are readily available to any healthcare providers no matter where they are. Hence, patient health information can be accessed anywhere, anytime. Still on the plus size, patients can choose to monetize their health records and make them available to selected health personnel to advance research or for further investigation.

3. Health Assurance Platform: Smart contracts are regular features of blockchain technology. Each smart contract ensures that transacting parties fulfill whatever terms have been agreed as terms of the transaction. On Cures, The Health Assurance Platform creates an avenue for Medical Service Providers to enter into binding agreements with patients and other users of the platform. This is the most efficient way to utilize the scare available human and material resources in the health industry. Smart contracts add value to the platform and ensure consistency. Stakeholders can provide premium services for users that enter smart contracts to provide an incentive for doing so.

4. Marketplace and Trust Review Platform: This is where patients can shop for the best health service providers on the platform. This platform provides an avenue for each health service provider to remain competitive and try to raise the standards of healthcare provided. A user review system will ensure that only patients that used a particular health service on the blockchain can write a review of their level of satisfaction or not of the service provided. This review system will eliminate the attendant fraud in today's systems where hired reviewers are paid to make positive, though misleading reviews about health services. The transparency of this review system will ensure that only the best service providers are allowed to remain on the platform. Providers with poor rating will struggle to do business and are henced forced to upgrade their services or face elimination from the market.

5. Trading platform: This trading platform is specifically for Medical equipment Suppliers (MES) to sell to patients on the platform. The traditional markets through the middleman is expensive as costs are added to original supplier prices of medical equipment. This trading platform connects the supplier directly to the buyer, reducing the cost of equipments supplied. On the trading platform, suppliers can deal directly with hospitals, clinics and other healthcare providers. This makes for efficiency in obtaining medical equipment as well as making them affordable.

6. Charitable Trust Fund: a separate legal entity, funded with 5% of the token supply and voluntary contributions by token users. To be used as a funding instrument for charitable projects aimed at improving world healthcare in deprived regions and project selection in a transparent way against a set of clearly defined criteria.

The Token

Cures is an ERC20 compliant token that will power all economic activities on the platform. The token will serve two major purposes: (1) it can be used as an exchange for services rendered on the platform. (2) It will be a tradable token on the open cryptocurrency market. While holders of Cures token can use the utility to pay for products or services purchased on the platform, it does not guarantee them voting rights or any share holding in the company.

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Conclusion

Cures will power the mass adoption of blockchain technology through the health sector. Through its six pillars, it will decentralize the current healthcare industry and facilitate improved and affordable health services globally. By creating an ecosystem to bring all stakeholders in the health industry together, Cures will ensure that scare health resources are utilized and create easy accessibility to materials, machines and health personnel. This will help achieve its overall vision of quality and affordable healthcare for all.

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