The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology has announced the winners of its “Use of Blockchain in Health IT and Health-related Research Challenge.” Most commonly ...

Not long ago, blockchain technology captured the imagination — and the wallets — of financial services firms that sought a “first-mover” advantage by integrating it into their outdated management ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. In health care, we talk about blockchain in terms of its ability to securely, privately and ...

Blockchain "is not meant to wipe out existing legacy systems," said Maria Palombini, director of communities and initiatives development at the IEEE Standards Association. In most cases, the idea is ...

Gem, a provider of enterprise blockchain solutions, launched Gem Health, a network for developing applications and shared infrastructure for healthcare powered by the Ethereum blockchain, and ...

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McKesson's Change Healthcare is close to buying PokitDok, a health-tech start-up that is best known for trying to apply blockchain technology to health care transactions. PokitDok raised more than $55 ...

SEOUL, South Korea--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MEDIKEY, a blockchain-based platform to reward participants if they share health information and become healthy, launched the main net on Oct. 1, 2018. MEDIKEY ...

In a First Opinion piece on how blockchain technologies could affect health care and the life sciences, its landscape map included 48 projects covering areas like decentralized health records and data ...

Unlike conventional digital systems, where responsibility typically rests with a platform operator, data controller or ...

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Blockchain’s interoperability could underpin data exchange, serving as an alternative to today’s health information exchanges (HIEs); essentially, it would act as a mesh network for transmitting ...