Healthcare IT News February 13, 2019
Could 2019 be the year where distributed ledger technology transcends its early hype and enters into its “plateau of productivity” phase? At least one expert thinks so.
At the HIMSS Blockchain Forum on Wednesday, Jim Tate, founder of EMR Advocate and, more recently, Elysian Blockchain, used a couple of rock lyrics to describe distributed ledger technology.
First were the words of David Bowie: “Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming.”
Or perhaps more appropriate, as many try to make sense of what blockchain is and what it can do for healthcare, were the timeless lyrics of Bob Dylan: “Something is happening here and you don’t know what it is.”
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