The HIMSS Series has a new book on blockchain in healthcare. "Blockchain in Healthcare: Innovations that Empower Patients, Connect Professionals, and Improve Care" is the title of…
A report out in Politico that discusses the use of distributed autonomous organizations in clinical trials. Politico points out that modern healthcare has a problem: many diseases…
Decentralization has not yet been applied within the cryptic act of drug pricing. The key advances of decentralization in supply chains and clinical trials prove promising. Consensus reaching is crucial. Stakeholders are unlikely to favor transparency as that is the method by which they can fulfill their fiduciary responsibility in maximizing profits for companies. Therefore, without government intervention through stringent policy, stakeholders will not easily give up on rising profit margins
Researchers from the Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour in France and Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí in México published a joined study titled…
Modernhealthcare.com, one of the major US based sources of healthcare business and policy news, research and information, has invited industry experts to discuss state of blockchain in…
Announced during the 2022 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Global Conference in Las Vegas, ConsenSys Health plans to integrate FHIRBlocks' technology into its Elevated Compute…
ethical design for blockchain in healthcare, scenario-based ethical dilemmas, the right to be forgotten, and algocracy, the power of algorithms upon us
AI and IoMT embedded in smart contracts for clinical setting, blockchain based dynamic consent and other decentralised features of future clinical trials. All this is native to young researchers now, read an example of their vision
A token is a piece of code that certifies information about you in an immutable and practically undestroyable decentralized database. It can be your health data, your genetic dataset, tokenization will allow you to trace how it's used. But tokens may be also used in remote provision of healthcare services, as well as to motivate us to a healthy lifestyle
What to expect of blockchain adoption in healthcare in the near future? Where in global health can we see the most significant changes by adoption of distributed technologies?
