Fast Company April 1, 2022
Blockchain can help deal with issues like interoperability, a matter that is of the utmost importance in the healthcare sector.
Back in 2016, author/inventor Richie Etwaru, an avowed futurist, predicted that blockchain would someday provide “an underlying fabric for healthcare.”
Etwaru, speaking at the New York Academy of Science, asserted that healthcare had been “underperforming as an industry,” and that blockchain would provide “massive acceleration within the sector” over the next 25 years. Specifically, he said the technology would go a long way toward “building a patient-centric healthcare system where a person’s entire lifecycle and journey is tracked through this system, while giving control on how their data is used and how it’s shared while they have full access and...
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