Inside Digital Health February 21, 2019
There’s a promising new way to give physicians and clinicians better access to patient data, enable them to deliver the best possible care and get paid for their services in an accurate and timely fashion.
It’s blockchain technology.
Blockchain is one of the hottest topics in healthcare today because of its potential to improve transparency, drive clinical quality, relieve administrative burdens and reduce costly waste within the system. While the technology received criticism in the past for its lack of healthcare applications, health-tech experts say that’s changing.
One need only look at the financial services industry to understand the impact blockchain can have on healthcare. Initially used to lower the worldwide cost of cross-border payments, security trading and compliance, blockchain...