As blockchain matures, stakeholders should weigh competition vs. partnership

Healthcare IT News June 25, 2020
Kat Jercich

As new distributed ledger platforms have emerged – and the tech has shown promise for the security of COVID-19 contact tracing – so has the potential for data siloing.

Blockchain, heralded as a “game-changer” in many industries, has become a potential way for health systems to store and exchange patient data in a secure format.

But as different consortia and platforms using the distributed ledger technology have emerged, said experts during a HIMSS20 Digital session, so has the potential for information siloing – made increasingly complicated in an era where questions of interoperability are key.

Transactions and trust are the hallmarks of blockchain technology, said Brian Behlendorf, executive director of the blockchain umbrella project Hyperledger, during the panel discussion, Building...

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