What does blockchain mean for health care?

KevinMD December 20, 2020
Christopher H. Loo, MD, PhD

In 2016, I was at an angel investor’s conference in Las Vegas when I met a certain individual pursuing their MBA at Stanford University.

We got to talking about angel investing, and the term “blockchain” was mentioned.

I asked, “the blockchain: that’s Bitcoin, isn’t it?”

“Oh no,” was their reply, “Bitcoin is only the beginning of what is to come.”

They further added, “the blockchain is going to change the world in ways you can’t even start to fathom. It is going to be even bigger than the internet”.

Having lived through and witnessed the birth of the internet, the tech boom-bust cycle, the Amazon e-commerce boom, and the continuing evolution of companies including the likes of Google, YouTube, Facebook,...

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