The UK Startup That Wants To Streamline The Global Healthcare Industry

Anyone who’s used Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) will have noticed that however good the staff, there’s a mass of inefficient bureaucracy involved—from patients repeatedly having to give their ages, to the millions of letters sent through the post between hospitals, doctors and patients’ homes.

Could blockchain make healthcare more efficient? That’s the ambition of a UK startup called Pharmeum. Based in Leeds since 2017, the company, with a staff of eight, has the giant ambition of integrating the many different aspects of healthcare—from doctors and hospitals, to drugs and prescriptions via payment methods and insurance—into one easy-to-use app.

Co-founder and CEO Zain Rana describes Pharmeum as “a blockchain and AI solution for the healthcare industry, using private permission blockchain to access affordable healthcare globally”. – Coingeek