Healthcare blockchain leader talks challenges and trends in DLT
Healthcare IT News March 3, 2022
Stuart Hanson, CEO of Avaneer Health, discusses healthcare’s hesitancy to adopt blockchain, highlights some of its best potential use cases – and predicts what might be next for distributed ledger technology in 2022 and beyond.
Blockchain technology has started getting attention by health IT leaders and holds much promise.
“While blockchain technology is not a panacea for data standardization or system integration challenges, it does offer a promising new distributed framework to amplify and support integration of healthcare information across a range of uses and stakeholders,” consulting firm Deloitte explained. “It addresses several existing pain points and enables a system that is more efficient, disintermediated and secure.”
In January, healthcare blockchain technology and services company Avaneer Health announced new backing...