Category: blockchain

The Role Blockchain Could Play in Strengthening Patient-Provider Relationships

blockchain, Blockchain Technology, Care Coordination, Health IT, Healthcare Blockchain, Opinion / October 29, 2021 October 29, 2021

Matthew Doyle, COO & Head of Investor Relations at Chicago Pacific Founders With conversations about NFTs and blockchain prominent in the news today, the future of such technology is a hot topic. The integration of blockchain technology into a variety of industries has proved to be beneficial in productivity, efficiency, and security. Because of this success, …

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Using blockchain to enable consistency in medical cannabis

blockchain, Daily, MedCity Influencers, medical cannabis, News, Pharmacy, SYN, Top Story / July 16, 2021 July 16, 2021

If a doctor can confidently prescribe a specific plant-derived treatment to a patient and know that there’s going to be no meaningful change in the chemical composition from batch to batch, that doctor will be more likely to prescribe that treatment.

Can Blockchain-Enabled Telehealth Uphold the Sovereignty of Physicians?

blockchain, Blockchain Technology, Coronavirus (COVID-19), Health IT, Healthcare Blockchain, Physicians, Telehealth / May 27, 2021 May 27, 2021

Pradeep Goel, CEO and Founder of Solve.Care The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted yet again the immensely important role played by healthcare professionals across the globe, but it has also presented immeasurable challenges to physicians themselves. As frontline workers, they are placing their lives at risk day in, day out, to ensure the health of their …

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Nebula Genomics Launches World’s First Genomic NFT – Blockchain

blockchain, Blockchain Technology, digital health, Genomics, Healthcare Blockchain / May 27, 2021 May 27, 2021

Professor George Church, co-founder of Nebula Genomics and Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School What You Should Know: – Professor George Church, co-founder of Nebula Genomics and Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School, will be partnering with GRAMMY-nominated, multi-platinum selling artist, producer, entrepreneur, and philanthropist, Akon and his NFT platform, AkoinNFT, to auction …

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COVID Exposed The Dire Need for Real-Time Healthcare Data Sharing

AI, apple, Apple Watch, big data, blockchain, cancer, Caregivers, Coronavirus (COVID-19), DexCom, diabetes, Health IT, Healthcare Data, Healthcare Supply Chain, HIM, Interoperability, Life Sciences, Medtronic, Most Popular, NIH, Opinion, Patient Care, Payers, Portal, primary care, Quantified Self, Uber, Uber Health, Vital / March 31, 2021 March 31, 2021

Birju Shah, Head of Product for Uber Health & Communities Nick Jordan, Founder and CEO, Narrative In a world where technology and Big Data can provide us with instantaneous access to our banking transactions, and our financial information and credit reports can be retrieved with a few keystrokes when applying for a mortgage — trying to …

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Blockchains are the building blocks of better healthcare

blockchain, Daily, Health IT, MedCity Influencers, SYN, Top Story / March 10, 2021 March 10, 2021

Rather than having multiple digital ledgers for the industry, better health care results require a single global blockchain that massively scales, capable of efficiently handling high volumes of data to act as the single source for information.

Moderna, IBM Partner on COVID-19 Vaccine Supply Chain & Distribution Data Sharing

Artificial Intelligence, blockchain, Blockchain Technology, cloud, Coronavirus (COVID-19), digital health, IBM / March 8, 2021 March 8, 2021

What You Should Know: – Moderna and IBM announced their intentions to explore technologies, including artificial intelligence, blockchain and hybrid cloud, that could help support smarter COVID-19 vaccine management. Central to the effort will be a pilot of open, standardized, technology-enabled vaccine distribution approaches aimed to improve supply chain visibility and foster near real-time tracking …

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Epillo to pilot blockchain-based DTx with Hydrus7

blockchain, digital, Digital Therapeutics, Epillo, News / March 8, 2021 March 8, 2021

European digital health firm Epillo is to launch a pilot digital therapeutics (DTx) project in a strategic partnership with US-based blockchain firm Hydrus7 Labs. Epillo’s technology is based around a patient-facing software apps that help patients treat, prevent, or manage the disease. The company said its products help real-time management and monitoring of drug-food constituent …

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Traditional RESTful APIs Will Not Solve Healthcare’s Biggest Interoperability Problems

Amazon, API, APIs in Healthcare, blockchain, Caregivers, cloud, Data Governance, Electronic Medical Records, EMR, FHIR, global health, google, google cloud, Health IT, Health IT Interoperability, Healthcare API platforms, Healthcare Interoperability, hitech, HL7, Interoperability, medical records, Microsoft, Middleware, Opinion / January 12, 2021 January 12, 2021

Brian Platz, Co-CEO and Co-Chairman of Fluree Interoperability is a big discussion in health care, with new regulations requiring interoperability for patient data. Most approaches follow the typical RESTful API approach that has become the standard method for data exchange. Yet Health Level Seven (HL7), with its new Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) standard for …

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Blockchain app used to ensure passenger safety during pandemic

blockchain, COVID-19, digital, News / January 4, 2021 January 4, 2021

There are hopes that a new app based on blockchain technology will allow safe international travel via Singapore’s Changi Airport, which verifies passengers’ COVID-19 status before boarding planes. Developed by health and security provider International SOS and AOKPass, the app was first used to provide a digitally verifiable COVID-19 heath certificate for entrance to Singapore …

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30 Executives Share Top Healthcare Predictions & Trends to Watch in 2021

ACA, Acute Care, AI, Artificial Intelligence, Biofourmis, Biomarkers, blockchain, Blockchain Technology, cameron deemer, Care Coordination, Central Logic, chronic disease management, CipherHealth, Clinical Quality Measures, clinical research, Clinical Trial, Clinical Trials, clinical workflows, cloud, CMS, critical access hospitals, Cybercriminals, Data Governance, decision support, digital health, Digital Transformation, DrFirst, Drug Discovery, electronic medical record, Elsevier, Genomic Analysis, Health Disparities, Health Informatics, Health IT, Health Systems, healthcare analytics, Healthcare Data, healthcare it, Healthcare Leaders, Healthcare Price Transparency, home health, Home Health Care, honor, integrity, Internet of Things, Interoperability, IoT, Life Sciences, Linguamatics, Machine Learning, MD, Medicaid, medical records, Medicare, medication, Medisafe, mental health, Mental Illness, model, NLP, NTT DATA Services, Patient Access, Patient Care, Patient Engagement, Patient Journey, Patient Monitoring, PatientPing, Payers, Pharma, physician burnout, Physicians, Population Health, Population Health Management, post-acute care, Predictive Analytics, Price Transparency, remote patient monitoring, risk, SAP, sensors, social determinants of health, Solutionreach, Teladoc, Telehealth, Telemedicine, THREAD, Uber, unstructured data, Value-Based Care, virtual care, Virtual Visits, Vital, Vocera, Wearables / December 30, 2020 December 30, 2020

As we close out the year, we asked several healthcare executives to share their predictions and trends for 2021. Kimberly Powell, Vice President & General Manager, NVIDIA Healthcare Federated Learning: The clinical community will increase their use of federated learning approaches to build robust AI models across various institutions, geographies, patient demographics, and medical scanners. The sensitivity and …

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Signify Health Acquires Healthcare Payment Blockchain Company PatientBlox

blockchain, Blockchain Technology, Care Coordination, Episode of Care, Health IT, Healthcare Blockchain, healthcare blockchain companies, healthcare bundled payment, Healthcare Mergers & Acquisitions, model, Payers, risk, technology in healthcare, Value-Based Care / November 23, 2020 November 23, 2020

Signify Health, a leading provider of technology-enabled healthcare solutions designed to keep people healthy and happy at home has acquired PatientBlox, an Atlanta-based technology company with deep expertise in applying distributed ledger technology in healthcare. The acquisition accelerates Signify’s prospective provider payment capabilities for episodes of care, supporting the company’s commitment to advance value-based care …

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How COVID-19 Has Revealed Healthcare’s Blockchain Use Cases

behavior, blockchain, Blockchain Technology, digital health, Health Systems, healthcare technology, HHS, integrity, Intellectual Property, Opinion, Payers, public health, risk / November 17, 2020 November 17, 2020

Brett Furst, President at HHS Technology Group Blockchain technology has somewhat infamously been described as “a solution in search of a problem,” but as the healthcare industry responds to the demands of the pandemic, several valuable use cases have surfaced that could benefit from employing the emerging technology. Due in large part due to its …

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Nebula Gives Users Ownership Of Their Personal Genomic Data with Oasis Integration

blockchain, digital health, dna, DNA Testing, genomic data, Genomics, medical records, risk / October 2, 2020 October 2, 2020

What You Should Know: – Nebula Genomics announces integration with Oasis Labs to give its customers full ownership and control of the data received from their comprehensive genome sequencing tests. – Through Oasis Labs’ unique privacy solution Parcel, Nebula’s users will be able to retain ownership and control of their personal genomic data. Data remains …

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