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Learning Log #8

The first Paper focuses on how blockchain technology might transform healthcare systems' interoperability, privacy, and data security. It talks about the benefits of utilizing blockchain technology to safeguard private patient information, enhance provider data exchange, and lessen inefficiencies brought on by incompatible systems. Since health records are extremely sensitive and vulnerable to theft in centralized systems, the decentralized structure of blockchain improves security by removing single points of failure. It also discusses issues that hinder its widespread use in healthcare, like scalability and regulatory compliance (such as HIPAA limitations). Using blockchain technology as a healthcare administrator will help guarantee the highest data security requirements and protect private patient information from breaches. Additionally, blockchain could assist in streamlining administrative procedures, prevent redundant testing, and reduce patient care delays by facilitating seamless connectivity between various healthcare systems. Blockchain-based smart contracts can automate administrative tasks like insurance claims, cutting down on paperwork, mistakes, and time. The second paper explores the development of mental health services from the perspective of asylums, which were first established to offer compassionate care but have since turned into hotspots for abuse and neglect. Influential people who fought for moral treatment, including William Tuke and Dorothea Dix, are highlighted, but it also talks about how patients suffered greatly as a result of underfunding overcrowding and dangerous procedures like lobotomies and uncontrolled electroconvulsive therapy. Healthcare administrators can concentrate on patient-centered strategies that uphold the respect and dignity of people with mental illnesses by taking lessons from past mistakes. In order to stop abuse and neglect in mental health facilities, administrators should make sure that there is enough money, staff, and training available. Administrators can promote moral care and steer clear of the dangers of antiquated, detrimental methods by being aware of the history of mental health care. These two domains, historical, ethical teachings, and technology—intersect in significant ways in healthcare administration. By safeguarding patient privacy and enabling smooth care transfers between providers, blockchain technology can be utilized to expedite and secure mental health records. Administrators can integrate cutting-edge technologies while maintaining a patient-centered approach by adopting the ethical lessons learned from the history of mental health treatment. The development of mental health care and blockchain both highlight how crucial innovation is to healthcare, not only for efficiency but also for patient rights protection and humane treatment.

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