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Blockchain

Synaptic Health Alliance: Our Journey

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Mike Jacobs provides insight into the thinking and approach behind the formation of the Synaptic Health Alliance and a glimpse into the internal operations that are key to running a blockchain alliance in healthcare.

 

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.

 

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.
 

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."
 

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.