Healthcare IT News October 15, 2019
Mike Miliard

During Converge2Xcelerate at the HIMSS Connected Health Conference, a blockchain expert and the CEO of DirectTrust put forth some ideas about how direct ledger technology could help solve a longstanding challenge.

BOSTON – “We have to come up with new paradigms if we are going to succeed in this industry,” said Amar Gupta, a professor at MIT’s Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, as well as its CSAIL Lab, in a keynote address at Converge2Xcelerate on Monday.

At ConV2X – hosted by Blockchain in Healthcare Today and Telehealth and Medicine Today, and presented as part of the pre-conference events of the HIMSS Connected Health Conference – Gupta (who was recently named editor-in-chief of TMT) made the case that healthcare has...

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Topics: Blockchain, Conferences / Podcast, EMR / EHR, Health IT, HIE (Interoperability), Patient / Consumer, Provider, Technology, Trends
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