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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."
 

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.

 

Leveraging Blockchain for Enterprise Consent Management

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.

 

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

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.