New strategic Partnership: dHealth integrates Load Network storage to bring healthcare data into 2025

Inspired by the low-tech and paper-based nature of healthcare in Switzerland, Eberhard Scheuer – former head of eHealth at the University Hospital of Zurich – founded dHealth to bring patient records into the digital age.

Healthcare data remains fragmented, ad-hoc, and controlled by large providers with little regard for a patient’s ability to control or analyse documents independently.

Powered by AI and with the self-sovereignty of blockchain, dHealth is already collaborating with healthcare providers to enhance ownership, visibility, and user experience in the EMR software sphere, while keeping the individual user at the centre. 

dHealth chose Load Network’s HyperBEAM-powered S3 storage layer to provide a path towards data decentralisation while keeping within the strict regulatory boundaries of medical data.

The healthcare data problem

Even in 2025, healthcare data is often fragmented and complex for patients to access and analyse.

Patients struggle to get comprehensive health records, while healthcare providers waste time processing incomplete information. Many on-chain storage layers are non-compliant for healthcare projects because patients have a right to be forgotten. The permanent nature of Arweave storage posed a significant barrier to its adoption for healthcare by dHealth, which sought to enable patients to store assets in a decentralised manner while maintaining tight control over their own data retention.

How dHealth works

dHealth Intelligence has developed an AI platform that unifies messy health data.

The process is simple: patients store all health-related information in a folder on their computer or online storage - including photos of prescription bottles, old lab reports, and voice recordings from doctor visits, among other items. The AI agent then interprets the information using medical language models.

Once processed, patients can chat with their data like talking to an assistant: "When was my last flu shot?" or "What health screenings should I get at my age?" The system can create organised docs, export in formats doctors understand, and send reports directly to healthcare providers.

Going live with Load S3

Unlike permanent storage options, Load S3 allows users to set expiry dates or delete data on demand - a feature essential for healthcare regulations like GDPR. Since dHealth handles encryption on their end, patients stay in complete control of who can access their information.

Load’s S3 storage layer runs across multiple independent providers, ensuring backup without a single company as a point of failure. Because it works similarly to Amazon S3, dHealth can integrate it without rewriting its existing code. As one of Load Network's first launch partners, dHealth gains early access, helps build the integration, and has room to grow without incurring upfront costs.

Looking ahead

dHealth and the Load network form a powerful combination, enabling individuals to retain complete control over their personal health data on the Load network. Users can selectively grant dHealth access to generate insights and securely share data. This creates a global, decentralised solution that operates independently of regional healthcare systems.