Frank Ricotta, CEO & Founder, BurstIQ

The LifeGraph® trust accelerators and blockchain technology help you develop HIPAA, GDPR, and Web 3.0 compliant health apps quickly and cost-effectively.

You have a brilliant idea for a health application. An application with the potential to improve lives, cut costs – you know, disrupt the health industry. Web 3.0 is gaining traction, and decentralized apps (dApps) are in demand. Herein lies the rub; healthcare is a challenging sector, no matter how game-changing your solution. Managing health data is a complex and expensive process. That fact alone can make you feel like your idea is impossible to achieve.

Developing a health app that is HIPAA– and GDPR-compliant can be an incredibly time-consuming and costly process. As if developing a solution that meets these standards isn’t hard enough, once you get to market, you may be in a position of not having an established and trusted reputation. If consumers and partners don’t know you, how can they trust you?

Healthcare startups and innovators need a proven and secure way to speed up the development cycle for health apps, not break the bank during development, and help establish your reputation and commitment to trust.

That’s where BurstIQ comes in. Powered by innovative blockchain services, LifeGraph® takes the complexity out of managing human data and helps you establish trust right from the start.

Developing on the LifeGraph platform with our trust accelerators means you have everything you need to ensure your data-rich app can meet HIPAA, GDPR, Web3 standards.

• Data is secure and unified across all your data touchpoints
• Consent is integrated, not an afterthought
• High availability and disaster recovery are built-in
• Deployment is flexible, either traditionally or as a dApp
• Blockchain services are easy to deploy don’t require specialized development skills
• IQ engines put artificial intelligence and machine learning to work for your data, allowing you to build hyper-personalized health solutions

But, most importantly

• You’ll get your health solution to market faster
• It will cost you less
• You’ll establish your commitment to trust right out of the gate

In this blog post, we’ll dig in to see how it all works.

Violating HIPAA and GDPR can result in massive fines and a tarnished, if not ruined, reputation. And developing a compliant health app is a lengthy and costly process, eating up six months to a year of your company’s valuable time. To complicate things further, compliance is not a one-and-done process. Maintaining compliance requires a steadfast commitment to protecting health information by establishing a solid DevOps process, implementing the right cyber security tools and monitoring, passing annual audits, and more.

The LifeGraph Network is SOC II Type 2 certified and has been for four years running. SOC 2 certification means BurstIQ has implemented the appropriate security systems and processes to ensure data security, availability, confidentiality, and overall privacy. We have gone through the rigorous process and audits for all your backend data services so you don’t have to. With professional services, we can help build your app to cover even more of your compliance lift.

Developing your health app on the LifeGraph Network demonstrates your commitment to data privacy right from the start. Our platform helps you build and maintain a compliant app. Everything from DevOps and business processes to compliance at the data layer create a secure environment for handling the human data needed to fuel your health app.

Yes, you’ll still need to prove that your app is compliant, but developing on the LifeGraph Network helps you tackle the process confidently.

Web3 is the next phase of the internet. Sometimes called semantic web, Web 3.0’s core concepts are decentralization, openness, individual ownership and control of data, enhanced security, and greater user utility — all powered by blockchain technology.

With LifeGraphs, you can develop and deploy a Web3 application in record time.

Web 2.0 ushered in era of interactivity, social connectivity, and user-generated content (think Facebook and TikTok). To store all this user-generated data, Web 2.0 has relied on massive data warehouses owned and controlled by enterprises. Web 3.0 seeks to shift control of the internet and the distribution of data that drives it, putting control in the hands of people, so they get value in return for sharing data.

As you can see, trust isn’t just the latest marketing buzzword; it’s literally redesigning the infrastructure for the next generation of the internet. Let’s look at how we can help you build for the Web3.

The LifeGraph Network provides a developer-friendly ecosystem designed to help you develop a trusted health solution and go fast right out of the gate. The technology, tools and every process are purpose-built to ensure data security and support distributed data ownership and control.

LifeGraph Software Development Kits (SDKs) are modular and pluggable to help you make use of libraries, data models, APIs, and more so you can customize and get your complex health app to market as quickly as possible.

LifeGraph Network helps you develop a trusted health solution and get it to market as quickly as possible. The combination of SDKs and APIs helps you integrate systems and data sources into the platform and turn it into digital information in a matter of days.

LifeGraph trust accelerators are customizable application frameworks that help you create trusted user experiences quickly. Here’s a look at the accelerators in the LifeGraph toolkit:

The LifeGraph Network does so much more than unify your data. LifeGraphs turn all your health data into smart data — reliable, complete, timely, and secure data.

LifeGraphs give you a data foundation that is auditable, authentic, validated, timely, complete, and compliant. Skipping this critical step is a sure way to end up with data chaos. Here’s how LifeGraph blockchain services make your data smart.

LifeGraph Governance Services

• Governance: Consent contracts manage data access at all levels, from individual consent to cross-vendor data sharing, to system-wide data governance.
• Consent Smart Contracts: Self-executing contracts with the terms of the data-sharing agreement between the data owner and data consumer directly defined, encrypted, and enforced at the data layer.
• Orchestration: Automatically configure and control the flow of data for complex workstreams.
• Data Governance:  Manage your LifeGraph data model and dictionaries with easy-to-use tools.

LifeGraph Data Services

• Secure data zones: Manage your LifeGraph anywhere on the global network to maintain compliance with regional “data residence” requirements.
• Chain of custody: Full traceability of how your data is being created, evolved, and transacted, so you always know what your data is doing.
• Immutability & Auditability: Smart data provides your analytics and reporting tools with trusted data in context, so you can gain deeper insights and reduce risk.
• High Availability & Disaster Recovery: LifeGraph’s dynamic scaling and multi-node network means your data is always available, no matter what unpredictable event comes your way.

Intelligence Services

• IQ Engines: Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning help you continuously learn more about your users so you can tailor your solution to meet their specific and evolving needs.
• Real-Time Analytics: flexible schemas allow you to integrate directly with analytics and predictive modeling tools to understand your data and data transactions together, in real-time.

Connection Points

• API Integration Layer: Standard REST APIs allow you to easily integrate with your existing systems and data sources
• Layer 1 Blockchains: LifeGraph Network is blockchain-agnostic and can be integrated with Layer 1 digital ledgers for blockchain interoperability and public utility networks.
• Monetization:  Token-facilitated monetization and health NFTs provide incentives to increase health engagement and couple data transactions with financial transactions.
• Verified Data Integrations: Compatible with W3C decentralized identity (DID) and verifiable credential (VC) standards

LifeGraph Network sets the standard for how smart data powers intelligence.  IQ Engines allow you to harness your data for deeper insights, more personalized products, and collaborative intelligence. With LifeGraph, you are able to apply AI and machine learning not just to data within your own control, but to any consented data, anywhere – all while respecting personal privacy and maintaining full regulatory compliance. With LifeGraph, distributed AI is truly within reach for any company of any size.

When you combine trusted data with LifeGraph trust accelerators, the possibilities are endless for your health app. The LifeGraph Network powers various apps designed to improve how health is managed and delivered. Below are some examples of the types of applications that the LifeGraph Network can power.

BurstIQ fuels trust-first digital strategies with human data. LifeGraphs® take the complexity out of managing sensitive human data, freeing organizations to build trust through hyper-personalized health, work, and life digital experiences. In an era of data abundance, LifeGraphs promote trust between organizations and the individuals providing data through blockchain-powered governance and consent. The LifeGraph Network provides a single source of truth and an intelligent ecosystem, helping businesses gain a deep understanding of the people they serve. Armed with granular insights, they can deliver more value in digital experiences and make an increasingly digital world more human.