Healthcare Informatics December 20, 2016
Heather Landi

Some healthcare organizations are moving fast on commercializing blockchain at scale and even seem to be ahead of the financial industry, according to a report by IBM Institute for Business Value.

In a new report about blockchains in healthcare, the IBM Institute for Business Value collaborated with The Economist Intelligence Unit on a survey of 200 healthcare executives, both payers and providers in 16 countries. The survey found that 16 percent of healthcare organizations, identified as “trailblazers,” plan to have a commercial blockchain solution at scale in 2017. This compares with IBM surveys of banks and financial market enterprises, which found just 15 percent and 14 percent, respectively, plan to be at commercial scale for blockchain solutions in 2017, according...

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