Blockchain in Healthcare: The Potential Benefits, Risks
Indiana University Health is evaluating the use of blockchain in two areas to improve healthcare information security, Mitch Parker, CISO, says in an interview at
With Doctored Photos, Thieves Try to Steal Bitcoin
Some cryptocurrency exchanges mandate that customers use two-step verification. It requires a one-time passcode to be entered after someone logs in with a username and password. It’s a crucial security tool that deflects account takeover attempts if thieves have already obtained someone’s account credentials.A one-time passcode may be sent over SMS, or the safer way
Blockchain’s Biggest Potential in Healthcare
Where is the greatest potential for the implementation of blockchain in healthcare?”What we’re seeing in terms of real applications – outside the whole morass of cryptocurrency types of offerings – are auditing and portability capabilities that make it easier for … patients to access and hold onto their most current records without carrying around a
Will GDPR scupper blockchain?
Europes General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has stirred much debate over internet privacy. Essentially, the GDPR aims to create digital rights for EU citizens, requiring companies that collect or use personal data to ask for consent from their users or customers. This includes companies that maintain databases containing personal data, even if they do not
One Health Policy Researcher on the Current State of Blockchain in Healthcare, and its Potential Future
Tim Mackey, an associate professor of global public health at UC San Diego School of Medicine and an academic researcher on blockchain, discusses the complexities of blockchain adoption in healthcare.
How blockchain is fighting opioid epidemic
Much has been said about blockchain’s potential to enhance security of data management and sharing. Gartner has gone so far to say it’s overhyped at the moment; yet IBM and other tech firms are bent on turning the promise of cryptographic ledger technology into real-world efficiencies in healthcare and beyond.Blockchain’s growing list of innovative use
Blockchains best healthcare use cases could be supply chain management, administrative processes
A pervasive lack of trust among healthcare companies is a hurdle to widespread implementation of blockchain technology, but immediate benefits could be found in back-end data exchange around physician credentialing and supply chain management.
How Blockchain Technology Can Revolutionize Healthcare
How do providers get better access to patients, deliver the best possible care, and get paid for their services in an accurate and timely fashion? The answer could be found in a game-changing technology called blockchain.Blockchain is one of the hottest topics in healthcare today because of its promise to improve transparency, drive clinical quality,
Private blockchain, explained
The Synaptic Health Alliance and other groups are developing what they call private or “permissioned” blockchain systems to tackle the privacy and data integrity challenges that spring up when blockchain is applied to healthcare applications. You may have some questions.
How AI And Blockchain Could Deliver Interoperability In Healthcare
EHRs arent the boon to healthcare that we expected. They were supposed to make it easier for physicians to record and track patient data, improve patient care, and create interoperability between multiple healthcare systems.Digitization was still new when EHRs became the standard, so some disruption was expected. However, no one predicted that keeping up with
