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Blockchain

Drug Tracking, Tracing and Verification at the Last Mile of the Pharmaceutical Supply Chain

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Ben Taylor shares how blockchain and FDA's DSCSA-required 2D barcodes provide a solution for pharmaceutical supply that ensures data integrity, security and privacy, but also allows global visibility, interpretability and counterfeit interception.

 

Blockchain in a Health System Clinical Analytics Platform

Explore a use case for blockchain-enabled solutions that inform analytics to help health system improve outcomes and costs by identifying and addressing unwarranted clinical variation in surgeries.

 

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."
 

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.

 

The value of blockchain

Data ownership, access and control, in addition to consent management, are just a few of the benefits that blockchain can provide in healthcare, says Mirko De Maldè, President at Government Blockchain Association Italy.