# An inquiry regarding storing medical records in algorand blockchain

**URL:** <https://forum.algorand.co/t/an-inquiry-regarding-storing-medical-records-in-algorand-blockchain/2407>\
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**Created:** [January 11, 2021, 2:58am UTC](https://forum.algorand.co/t/an-inquiry-regarding-storing-medical-records-in-algorand-blockchain/2407 "2021-01-11T02:58:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![tsachi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.algorand.co/tsachi/32/29_2.png) [@tsachi](https://forum.algorand.co/u/tsachi)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2021, 4:13pm UTC](https://forum.algorand.co/t/an-inquiry-regarding-storing-medical-records-in-algorand-blockchain/2407/5 "2021-01-11T16:13:00Z")

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You could maintain authenticity by storing hashes of data in the blockchain. However, storing the data itself ( even when its encrypted ) in the database might not be the best idea.

I’m not a medical data storage expert; when I think of medical data I think of MRI and CT imaging, scanned consent forms along with some arbitrarily key/values pairs. Before making any concrete design decision, I’d suggest you’ll figure out what is the min/max/avg data size. If that data size exceeds several kilobytes per account, then it might not be the best fit for a blockchain ( any blockchain, not Algorand specifically ).

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