Healthcare DIVE August 30, 2018
Providers and payers are looking at blockchain to solve problems ranging from interoperability to supply chain inefficiencies and getting people to adopt healthy behaviors.
lockchain is abuzz in healthcare today, with providers, payers and digital health developers all touting its potential to increase work efficiencies, securely transmit and share data and improve patient outcomes.
Numerous examples of late show how companies are looking to capitalize on the trend.
In June, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office awarded Walmart a patent for a system that caches a person’s medical information in a blockchain database and allows first responders to retrieve it in a medical emergency. The wearable device in which the blockchain resides includes a biometric scanner that creates a unique...
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