Healthcare IT News February 19, 2018
Mike Miliard

The federal agency aims to help IT decision makers sift through the hype to make “clear-eyed” choices about how they could (or should) deploy blockchain.

According to Gartner’s famous Hype Cycle, blockchain technology has already begun its precipitous slide into the trough of disillusionment, with five to 10 years still to go until it finds a steady perch on the plateau of productivity.

But that’s not to say there aren’t plenty of useful applications and advances that can be innovated between now and then.

Gartner itself is bullish on blockchain’s prospects. Despite the fact that industries such as healthcare are still sizing up the distributed ledger technology – and a lack of proven use cases, coupled with bitcoin’s recent volatility,...

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