The Medical Data OceanTM (MDO) is not only a very large data repository, but solves data transferability issues, including both technical challenges and financial incentives. Currently, datasets are often referred to as data lakes, which is appropriate because the majority are effectively silos with limited to no connectivity to other data sets. Although there are regulations promoting standardization of information exchange in healthcare, they have led to limited data sharing due to lack of focus on the patient. In fact, the most recent report from 2023 titled Progress on implementing and using electronic health record systems: Developments in OECD countries as of 2021 shows that US ranks among the four countries with no national EHR systems along with Costa Rica, Mexico, and Netherlands. The US also has some of the least amount of data sharing due to lack of national or sub-national standards.
Regulation such as “My Health, My Data” recently implemented in Washington state, two other states and growing which offers more stringent privacy protection to personal medical data. All of us have personal medical data that can be used to (i) improve our healthcare (ii) help others with similar medical issues (iii) collect passive income and (iv) be used as collateral.
Sanus empowers the patient to enter the MDO through a personalized healthcare portal First Opinion™. The data that is collected in the MDO is processed by a Data Distiller™ which reduces the data to its mathematical essence. This distillation process adds an important layer of security to the MDO: not only do we remove all of the 18 personal HIPAA identifiers, but we also replace primary data with a collection of keywords and numbers that allow the health status of patients to be compared through key biomarker information. This process also underlies the logic behind personalized medicine — it is actually “cohort” medicine where experience of a group connected through a biomarker fingerprint is used to identify therapy suited to an incoming patient.