Abstract: Systems and methods for verifying the certifications and the authenticity of commercial products is disclosed. The system receives photos of the commercial product and the labels displayed on the product. The system performs image recognition on the labels and extracts the certification marks on the product. The system accesses a certification-database and verifies if proper certifications exist for the product. The systems include a product registration-system where manufacturers registered their products by uploading photos of the products and their labels. Registered-product-records are formed for each registered product and are rendered immutable via a blockchain. A user investigates if a product in the stream of commerce is an authentic product by uploading photos of the product on the registration-system. The information extracted from the photos is compared with the information in the corresponding registered-product-record. Geolocation information of the investigated products is acquired.

Abstract: A data management system for managing data acquired during medical procedures is disclosed. The data management system may include a centralized database and/or a plurality of databases storing procedure records. Each of the procedure records comprises data acquired by a data acquisition system during a medical procedure performed on a specific patient. The data management system enables users to access, search and perform analytics on data in the databases. The system may further include a blockchain configured to render immutable the data in the centralized database and databases. The data management system may include a centralized data access system enabling users to access the plurality of databases even when each of the databases are operated by different healthcare providers and when the procedure records in the databases are owned by the different owners. The data acquisition system may be part of a portable-surgical-system for performing surgery in the field.