Block chain and its uses cases for a non-financial asset market So i have been reading a lot about block chain technology and its use cases in the finance and cryptocurrecncy markets. One thing that guarantees blockchain's success in the cryptocurrency market is the prevalent financial incentive for the miners to validate blocks of transactions to make it part of the public ledger (they are rewarded with bitcoins). This financial incentive is associated with a financial asset block chain and partly explains the ongoing boom in the price of Bitcoin. However, as an  economics and technology enthusiast, i am curious to learn more about the inherent incentive structure that would prevail if the block chain is for a non-financial asset (let's say it stores patient's data- a use case for blockchain in the healthcare market)? How can we incentivize miners to validate and solve pending blocks in cases where a blockchain stores a non-financial asset and therefore giving a financial incentive seems impossible? 

I would appreciate any resources(articles, books etc) that you guys can share below in the comments. I look forward to doing more research. Thanks!
It's far from obvious that any such system would be usable or secure. But in many places "blockchain" has become a alternative way of saying "cryptography", "digital signatures", or "distributed system" -- all of which might be useful.

Storing patient data "in a blockchain" is one of the more horrifying concepts that I've encountered. I've never seen a good reason for it and in fact there seems to be a perfect mismatch in the technology:  What Bitcoin invented was a way of building a public system of a sort that was previously trivial to build privately.  There are many issues with medical records, making them less private is not generally considered one of them. :)

To me a lot of the blockchain hype feels like "Bitcoin appears to solve a complex problem.  Peace in the middle east is a complex problem, thus the technology from Bitcoin can solve it!".