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 ...

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— and the wallets — of financial services firms that sought a “first-mover” advantage by integrating it into their outdated management ...

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 ...

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 ...

Blockchain is a public ledger of cryptocurrency transactions with the potential to revolutionize data management and exchange in the healthcare industry. Blockchain is already a powerful tool in the ...

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When it comes to healthcare, it’s more common to hear the terms “Bitcoin” and “blockchain” as they relate to heists of hospital data, patient records and ransomware. You can just imagine the hackers ...

Originally developed for cryptocurrency in 2008, blockchain allows a distributed network of computers to keep a tamper-proof digital ledger. The technology, however, is useful whenever collaborating ...

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 ...

Blockchain could, for example, play a supportive role in a variety of areas: allowing for shared statistics on population health, clinical trials research, drug supply chain integrity, remote auditing ...

There are 26 different electronic medical records systems used in the city of Boston, each with its own language for representing and sharing data. Critical information is often scattered across ...