Non-fungible tokens for the management of health data
The COVID-19 pandemic stimulated an unprecedented push for digital transformation, accelerating the adoption of digital technology in health care1. There was a surge in telemedicine services, in artificial intelligence (AI) for SARS-CoV-2 detection2and in the use of AI to predict blueprints for vaccine development3. With the increased digital flow of data, there is a need for privacy-preserving technologies to improve research and clinical applications within the healthcare system4,5. Data tokenization on the blockchain provides high levels of privacy and confers the potential for personal ownership of health data, which other privacy-preserving technologies such as federated learning and generative adversarial networks…