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Blockchain

Decentralized Provider Directory and Credentialing

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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.

 

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."
 

Democratizing Health Data

Dr. Abdullah Albeyatti, Medicalchain CEO, discusses his organization's use of blockchain technology to provide a solution that empowers patients with control of their health data and the ability to grant access to providers at the point of care.
 

Transforming Enterprise Supply Chain with Blockchain

Susanne Somerville, CEO of Chronicled, discusses the MediLedger Network, a blockchain solution that provides product verification to help organizations meet requirements outlined in the upcoming Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA).

 

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.