Five leading health care organizations – Humana, MultiPlan, Quest Diagnostics and UnitedHealth Group’s Optum and UnitedHealthcare, announced that they are launching a healthcare blockchain pilot program applying blockchain technology to improve data quality and reduce administrative costs associated with changes to health care provider demographic data, a critical, complex and difficult issue facing organizations across the health care system.The companies will explore how the technology could
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Survey: Majority of Americans Have No Clue Where Their Medical Data is Stored
Majority of Americans have no knowledge as to where their medical data is stored and who has access to it, according to a new survey conducted by Australian start-up ScalaMed, a blockchain based mobile prescription system. The recent research of 800 patients reveals a number of key issues Americans face when it comes to managing their prescribed medication, while also highlighting how consumers know about where their medical records are stored and who has access to their health data.In fact,
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Four Use Cases to Apply Blockchain in Healthcare
Editor’s Note: Daniel Kivatinos is the COO and cofounder of drchrono, an integrated EHR platform that connects doctors, patients and health data to improve patient care. Daniel drives direction, brand vision, and business strategy for drchrono. Follow him on Twitter @danielkivatinosThere is a lot of buzz around Bitcoin and other forms of cryptocurrency as a new kind of payment technology and how it can change our future. I am going to take a different spin on what is really interesting about
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Medable Unveils Blockchain for Healthcare Platform to Enable Medical Data Exchange
Medable Inc., the leading app and analytics platform for healthcare, at SXSW HealthSpark announced INSIGHT, a blockchain powered platform that enables medical data exchange among patients, medical researchers, and biopharmaceutical companies.Since its launch in late 2016, Medable has seen rapid adoption of its platform with a customer base that cares for over 15 million patients and conducts over 6,000 clinical trials. Using mobile devices and 3rd party tools like Apple’s Researchkit, Medable
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5 Benefits Of Using Blockchain Technology in Healthcare
Editor’s Note: Abhinav Shashank is the CEO & Co-founder at Innovaccer Inc., a datashop integrating complex data across multiple distributed sources to give healthcare organizations greater insights to provider better care.Blockchain- the technology that took the world by storm by its revolutionary work in data management and exchange, especially in the financial sector. Its immense success across different industries has left the healthcare world rattling with questions too. People are
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Change Healthcare Unveils Enterprise Healthcare Blockchain Solution for Claims Management
On Monday, Change Healthcare announced the general availability of its blockchain-enabled Intelligent Healthcare Network featuring claims management transparency, making it the first enterprise-scale blockchain in healthcare. Leveraging blockchain technology, organizations can accurately track, in real time, the status of claims submission and remittance across the complete claim lifecycle. In addition to improving transparency and efficiency, the incorporation of blockchain technology in the
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Health Wizz Launches Blockchain-Powered Mobile Platform for Patients to Organize Their Medical Record Data
Health Wizz has announced it's token pre-sale and the launch of it's new mobile platform that leverages blockchain, mobile technologies and data management to help consumers aggregate and organize their medical record data, then use the blockchain to securely access and share their data. As consumers gain greater awareness, they have greater expectations. They expect to be in control of their health and their health data and this includes the ability to access their health information anytime,
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doc.ai Raises $2.3M in Pre-ICO for Blockchain-Enabled NLP for Quantified Biology
doc.ai Incorporated (“doc.ai”), a San Francisco, CA-based digital health startup building an advanced natural language processing technology platform for quantified biology has raised $2.3 million in pre-ICO (initial coin offering) or initial sale of Simple Agreements for Future Tokens ("SAFTs"). A total of ten purchasers acquired SAFTs led by Pantera Capital.The early pre-sale of doc.ai's SAFTs, which are convertible into digital tokens named Neurons ("NRNs"), was limited to existing investors
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doc.ai Launches First Blockchain-Enabled NLP for Quantified Biology
doc.ai Incorporated ("doc.ai"), a San Francisco, CA-based digital health startup has announced the launch of its blockchain-enabled natural language processing (NLP) platform for quantified biology. Founded by the entrepreneurial Walter De Brouwer in 2016, doc.ai utilizes the blockchain to timestamp its datasets and decentralize artificial intelligence to generate insights from combined medical data.doc.ai is building a new platform for established medical companies to enable patients to have
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Patientory Launches Healthcare’s First Crypto-Token To Deliver Blockchain-Based Patient Care Model
Patientory.com, a provider of blockchain solutions for healthcare has announced the launch of their token sale offering - healthcare's first crypto-token. Patientory’s vision is to create a token that will allow healthcare providers to not only rent health information storage space, and to execute health specific smart contract payments and transactions, but also be rewarded through a compensation model for improving quality of care. Patientory is enabling early supporters to secure PTY, the
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