A Correlational Investigation of Personal Medical Data Safety and Blockchains

Any emerging technology needs a catalyst to help its adoption into mainstream utilization. The blockchain has been around for over 10 years now and although it has been widely adopted in the crypto asset world, its real-world implementation in the healthcare domain has been relatively slow. Considering the advantages possessed inherently by blockchains, it is perplexing as to why it has not found widespread acceptance. With most of the proposed implementations focusing on health records and patient centered access control, it was necessary to gain status of public perception of firstly, their health records, secondly, their outlook on the security aspects of their health data and finally understand to what extent have blockchains and its existence has infiltrated into the general populous. The Box’s M test significance value, p-value= 0.613, helps establish a correlation between an individual knowledge of blockchains and their ease in use of electronic devices. The ANOVA test was used to reject any correlation between an individual’s age and their perception of healthcare data safety and accessibility. The results of this analysis would help provide understanding on the feasibility of healthcare blockchain implementations.