Fierce Health Payers February 6, 2020
Anthem is betting big on blockchain.
The insurance giant has several pilots of the technology — which enables encryption of medical data and ensures the privacy of healthcare information — in the works. That includes a project to make it easier for patients to access and share their health data.
“The biggest application in healthcare is to create a system of trust between parties,” Rajeev Ronanki, senior vice president and chief digital officer at Anthem, told FierceHealthcare. “Right now, for many different reasons, between parties, whether it’s providers and health plans, or employers and health plans, and consumers, there isn’t an effective way to say who has rights to what information and how to create a trusted system for information...
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