healthbank

healthbank is revolutionising how personal health data is exchanged, stored and monetized. Health data today is complex – it often is stored in closed ecosystems, sits dormant, is nearly never seen by the end user – the patient. Exchanging personal health data is difficult – patients and care providers rarely have a complete record of an individual.

Health consumerism is driving how care is delivered and accessed. Patients increasingly have more data and choices at their fingertips and healthbank’s ecosystem enables users to securely store and exchange data with a range of healthcare, pharmaceutical and wellness and lifestyle service providers.

By operating a health data exchange platform, we connect different stake-holders in the health ecosystem – at the user’s request. healthbank provides an independent and neutral solution, that only the user has access to. We also process and exchange data, but that is also the user’s choice.

healthbank believes that every person accumulating health-related data must retain full control over it. We as individuals must have access to our data and be able to decide with whom we share it. And, more importantly, data must never be owned by corporations but by the people generating it. This creates trust, which is the necessary underpinning for the ecosystem.

healthbank is established as a cooperative: owned by the people, controlled by the people and serving the people. Cooperatively owned and regulated goods have a long tradition in Switzerland. And healthbank is established within this Swiss tradition: we value trust, neutrality, decentralization and security.

Adhering to these principles, all data will be stored, processed and exchanged only with the explicit and informed consent of the user. User consent is the necessary and non-negotiable precondition for providers to exchange and use data.