On Thursday September 29 at 1pm ET I will be hosting a conversation on blockchain in healthcare. Please join us live or catch the replay right here. My guests will be Brian Ahier (@ahier), Leonard Kish (@leonardkish) and Peter Nichol (@PeterBNichol). As we observe National Health IT Week, we take a multifaceted look at the technology and its potential for improving health IT. We welcome your comments and questions.
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My guests were kind enough to indulge me in some explanations of blockchain, but also observed, in essence, that you don’t really need to understand how an internal combustion engine works on order to reap the benefits of driving a car.
We discussed the range of possible applications, from research to medication reconciliation and beyond, the likely timelines for adoption, the varied approaches to implementation (permissioned vs. permissionless, for example), and more.
Here are links to some further explanation and discussion:
Peter Nichol:
If I Only Had Five Minutes to Explain Blockchain
The ONC Blockchain Challenge and the birth of the Crypto-Citizen for Healthcare
Leonard Kish:
Rewriting Healthcare on the Blockchain
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Blockchain
Unpatients – Why patients should own their own medical data (I have a different perspective on data ownership; see my post, and Leonard’s comment, among others, here.)
Youbase integration with Self Care Catalyst (video)
Other:
Evaluating Blockchain for Health Information Exchange (John Halamka’s blog, with comment from Arien Malec and David McCallie)
ONC and HHS blockchain challenge finalists (Announced about a month ago; descriptions and links to the fifteen papers included)
Deloitte page about blockchain and their challenge submission
David Harlow
The Harlow Group LLC
Health Care Law and Consulting
Great piece!
We recently published a piece on the status of the Blockchain Healthcare industry in 2016, covering the pitfalls and promises.
Would love to get your feedback!
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