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Blockchain

Leveraging Blockchain for Enterprise Consent Management

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Dominique Hurley, vice president of strategy and innovation at HealthVerity, discusses her company's use of blockchain technology to enable consent management for enterprise systems.

 

How blockchain can be used to address the COVID-19 crisis

HHS Technology Group President Brett Furst says the pandemic provides a "perfect example" for why the distributed ledger technology was invented.

 

Decentralized Provider Directory and Credentialing

Symblock's Brajesh Awasthi shares a demonstration of his company's blockchain-based healthcare provider credentialing and directory platform that is aimed at reducing credentialing time significantly and enabling transparency and trust.
 

The Future is Now: The Convergence of a Pandemic with the 4th Industrial Revolution

Hoffman-Childress provides an overview of blockchain-enabled solutions to address a variety of new needs as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, focusing on a supply chain solution to allow for streamlined connections between buyers and suppliers.

 

How blockchain and AI can work together for healthcare

Tej Anand, professor of practice at the University of Texas' McCombs School of Business, explains how the most promising use case for blockchain in healthcare is the elimination of "redundant work, rework and reconciliation."