Significant barriers to health data sharing and collaboration remain even with blockchain touted as catalyst

Blockchain is one of the most polarizing and schizophrenic technologies of our era, simultaneously full of promise and disappointment, incapable of living up to the extreme hype it generates. While blockchain is presumptively disruptive, is still lacks significant, business-changing implementations. Like desert wanders searching for an oasis, blockchain proponents see opportunity at every turn, only to have hopes dashed by another mirage when a brave enterprise discovers that pilot results don’t match their lofty expectations. Nonetheless, as we’ve learned time and again in IT, it’s unwise to utterly dismiss a technology based on disappointing results from trials during its early years since the failures...