The necessity of protecting themselves and their loved ones it one of the primary needs of everyone. This need for protection and security arises from the social roles that we play in life and which are inherent in us from birth. Mother and child, attitude towards elderly parents. One of the main components of this requirement is an opportunity to receive high-quality and available medical care for full-fledged, active and long life.
Today we have much more opportunities for active and long life than the previous generation. Besides a healthy lifestyle which is the primary and necessary condition for the achievement of this purpose, we need medicines for overcoming diseases, doctors who will lay an optimum way to recovery, and also we need the high-quality diagnosis possible of diseases.
However, the modern medicine can't exist and develop without technological innovations, scientific and technical achievements in the field of the medical equipment and medicaments. For this reason, I consider health is one of the most perspective and socially essential spheres for the introduction of blockchain technologies. But despite this belief, the health remains that sphere where the use of blockchain technology for the present didn't gain significant development.
Therefore when I for the first time heard about the Shivom project which is going to frame a revolutionary ecosystem of genomics, I keen the idea to write this review.
From the very beginning, let's define what we mean by the word genome. A genome is a collection of hereditary material, enclosed in a body cell. The genome contains the biological information necessary for constructing and maintaining the body. Most genomes, including the human genome and the genomes of all other cellular forms of life, are built from DNA.
For the last decade is researches of a genome became more available thanks to the improvement of methods and lower cost. But at some point, it became clear that further development is impossible without a significant change in the scale of these is researches. For this reason, is carried out today active process of accumulation of genetic information to massive databases. In many countries, the creation of biological information banks develops into projects of national scale, and then they become the basis of world science.
However, everyone knows that large pharmaceutical companies and research centers need the data of the human genome to create new drugs and they pay huge money to the intermediaries who sell our genetic data. Then, based on the analysis of this information, fundamental discoveries are made, new drugs are developed and tested, biomarkers of various diseases are searched for and so on. Shivom company offers an alternative in which using blockchain technology people will be able independently to sell data of the genotype for further studying. Having kept anonymity, people will obtain information on risks or predispositions to individual diseases, and blockchain guarantees transparency of process. It opens a way to the entirely new world of the individual genetically optimized medical products.
In conclusion, it would be desirable to notice that people the ordering tests in 23andMe for 99 dollars, can put a tick in a window "Yes, you can use my information for researchers." According to the representative 23andMe, from more than million about 80% of people gave the consent to participation, and the company sold these data to other firms. Moreover, 23andMe uses this information to create an internal group for the search and development of medicines. In other words, customers paying 99 dollars for the test, help 23andMe to achieve its billion profits, and the company usually does not pay anything to its customers for this.
Now it is necessary to ask a question whether needed to us the companies which will be said: "Give us your data, we will store them, and then sells and earn millions?". Or you need the company speaking: "You own and manage your data, and we will do everything possible to protect them, but you can benefit from it." Shivom here not to earn money, Shivom here to help us to sell the data in any pharmaceutical institutions, irrespective of their location. Shivom also is committed to providing evidence-based information on which people can decide whether they want to learn about the risk of developing certain diseases or not. I think such the system is honest.
Learn more about Shivom:
Website - https://shivom.io/
Whitepaper - https://shivom.io/files/Shivom-Executive-Summary.pdf
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