Healthcare IT News January 3, 2018
Akiri is developing a networking platform it says will help healthcare organizations more easily share data using blockchain.
San Francisco-based startup Akiri on Wednesday launched a blockchain-based network-as-a-service platform for healthcare. It’s fueled by $10 million in funding from Health2047, an innovation enterprise whose founding investor is the American Medical Association.
Starting with a secure, private, network-as-a-service, Akiri Switch, the technology will create a network of trust on which only subscribers can share data.
Akiri Switch is not a health information exchange, an extract-transform-load process nor an electronic health record, according to Akiri. Instead, it is an invitation-only, subscription-based, private network. Rather than store health information, it will be able to transmit data among healthcare organizations through a standardized system...
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