Healthcare IT Today February 19, 2020
While there’s been a lot of talk about the use of blockchain technology in healthcare, there haven’t been as many concrete options deployed as one might think. However, efforts underway at health insurance giant Anthem seem likely to bear fruit.
According to an item in FierceHealthcare, the giant health insurer has big plans for blockchain, including technology which would allow patients easier and finer-grained control of who can access and share their personal health data.
As Anthem senior vice president and chief digital officer Rajeev Ronanki told FH, currently it’s difficult to track who has rights to what information. Meanwhile, creating a trusted information-sharing system putting the consumer at the center has been problematic.
To date, there have been few...
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