Health IT Analytics December 6, 2016
Jennifer Bresnick

Blockchain technology may be able to reduce red tape, bolster interoperability, and improve consumer relationships within the healthcare payer community.

Blockchain may be starting to settle in to the financial industry as a secure methodology for tracking and approving transactions, but its use cases for other sectors, including the healthcare market, are not yet quite as clear.

Population health management, improved patient data access, and EHR data security are all on the table as possibilities, but operationalizing the decentralized verification technology for use in a fragmented, unstandardized, and competitive environment is not an easy ask for vendors or providers.

However, payers could be the ones who will get the blockchain ball rolling in the healthcare sector, suggests a new report...

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Topics: EMR / EHR, Health IT, Health System / Hospital, HIE (Interoperability), HITECH, Market Research, Medicaid, Medicare, Medicare Advantage, Patient / Consumer, Payer, Physician, Population Health Mgmt, Provider, RCM (Revenue Cycle Mgmt)
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