Inside Digital Health March 8, 2019
At HIMSS 2018, everyone was talking about the hype around blockchain. But was it just hype, or can the technology actually be implemented and benefit the healthcare industry?
While a lot of the HIMSS 2019 conversations moved away from blockchain, Inside Digital Health™ was able to talk to Ron Wince, CEO of Myndshft, a global cognitive computing company that helps organizations develop, deploy and operate Internet of Things solutions, to see where blockchain’s application in healthcare sits today.
At its biggest level, blockchain is a shared level that synchronizes across all of the parties that are working together.
The technology is made up of four components.
The first, a consensus algorithm, allows for governance of the parties to figure out...