Healthcare Innovation February 5, 2019
Rajiv Leventhal

A pilot project to examine how blockchain could help improve provider data quality is underway. Top officials discuss with Healthcare Innovation how it all came together and what important lessons have been learned

In December, two major healthcare stakeholders—Aetna and Ascension—announced their intentions to join the Synaptic Health Alliance, a group that has set out to explore how blockchain technology could improve healthcare data quality and reduce administrative costs.

Aetna and Ascension are the latest two organizations added to the Alliance, which began in April 2018 with five prominent players—Humana, MultiPlan, Quest Diagnostics, and UnitedHealth Group’s Optum and UnitedHealthcare. These five companies first announced their intentions back then to specifically explore how blockchain technology could help ensure that the most...

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