Hospital EMR and EHR November 30, 2018
In recent times, AI has joined blockchain on the list of technologies that just sort of crept into the health IT toolkit.
After all, blockchain was borne out of the development of bitcoin, and not so long ago the idea that it was good for anything else wasn’t out there. I doubt its creators ever contemplated using it for secure medical data exchange, though the notion seems obvious in retrospect.
And until fairly recently, artificial intelligence was largely a plaything for advanced computing researchers. I’m sure some AI researchers gave thought to cyborg doctors that could diagnose patients while beating them at chess and serving them lunch, but few practical applications existed.
Today, blockchain is at the core of countless...