OSF HealthCare collaborates to test blockchain-based app to reward healthy behaviors
Yahoo Finance May 10, 2022
PEORIA, Ill. and URBANA, Ill., May 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Research shows nearly half the people who have chronic conditions don’t take their medications as prescribed and that not sticking with medical advice results in an estimated $100 billion dollars in unnecessary health care spending.
A project to build a blockchain-based smart phone rewards app would use technology that could help meet requirements of consumer privacy and protection laws is led by OSF Innovation Senior Fellow and Clinical Informaticist Dr. Jonathan Handler. The research, through the Jump Arches program will have support from Innovation Engineer Tate Ralph of Jump Simulation, along with Wencui Han and Andrew Miller, assistant professors at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) Gies College of Business...