Curisium, a Manhattan Beach, CA-based healthcare blockchain startup has raised $3.5 million in seed funding from Flare Capital Partners, New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Shuttle Fund, Sanofi Ventures, and Green Bay Ventures. Founded by Peter Kim and Francis Lam, Curisium's healthcare blockchain-based platform eanable payers, providers, and life science companies to efficiently and securely engage in innovative, patient-centric value-based contracts. Nearly a third of the payments in the $3T US
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Nokia Launches Healthcare Blockchain Pilot to Share Personal Health Data Via Wearable Smartwatch
In October, communication giant Nokia and OP Financial Group, one of the largest financial services group in Finland has teamed up to launch a new healthcare blockchain pilot project, according to a recent Nokia blog post. The healthcare blockchain pilot will focus on giving consumers secure control over their personal health data including how it is shared, accessed and used powered by blockchain technology. Healthcare Blockchain Pilot DetailsThe first blockchain pilot will begin with an
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Healthcare Blockchain: How Does It Fit With Health IT?
With the end of the year rapidly approaching, it’s about time for articles making technology predictions for 2018 and proclaiming 2017 “the year of the (this space for rent).”As editors cast about for the healthcare IT story of the current year, they might have a hard time making the case for healthcare blockchain technology based on measurable recent impact, but they’ll have less trouble endorsing blockchain if they look at current hype and future potential.“Blockchain technology is a
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5 Digital Health Innovation Trends That Will Matter in 2018
In December 2016, many were suggesting that wearables were dead. Fitbit’s stock price was rapidly dropping. Apple Watch sales had declined for two consecutive quarters and Pebble had just been acquired in a fire sale.What a difference a year makes. Today, Apple Watch is poised to become the world’s best selling wearable. And, the market is quickly diversifying as hearables (once again led by Apple) and clinical wearables gain importance.The lesson is clear. As we look toward 2018, it’s more
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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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BurstIQ, Empiric Health Partner to Integrate Healthcare Blockchain Data Record with Intermountain
BurstIQ, Inc., a healthcare blockchain data company, announced the first mainstream OEM healthcare blockchain data record integration for Intermountain Healthcare with strategic partner Empiric Health. The Utah-based healthcare giant has already realized more than $90 million in savings using the Empiric technology (formerly known as ProComp) to identify operational efficiencies across the Intermountain Healthcare system.As part of the integration, BurstIQ’s proprietary blockchain-based big data
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Unified Signal, BurstIQ Expands Partnership to Offer Blockchain-based Health Data Management Layer for Mobile Crypto-Wallet
BurstIQ Partners With Unified Signal to Launch Crypto-Wallet Integrated Mobile Phone Service
BurstIQ, Inc., a HIPAA-compliant healthcare blockchain data record integration and security company has entered into a strategic partnership with Unified Signal to launch the world’s first mainstream blockchain-enabled crypto-wallet bundled with mobile phone service.The crypto-wallet will initially be deployed to United Signal’s mobile networks as an automatic update to customers’ e-wallets, adding instant access to their crypto-currency; Bitcoin, Ethereum and others for use within the united
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70% of Hospital Executives Believe Healthcare Blockchain Shows Promise for Interoperability
According to a new Black Book survey, 93 percent of managed care organization respondents and 70 percent of hospital respondents report respectively that blockchain shows soaring promise for healthcare interoperability. Conducted in Q3, Black Book surveyed 88 healthcare payers and 276 provider technology executives, managers and IT specialists on their comprehension of healthcare blockchain solutions and their level of organizational investment interest.What is Blockchain? First described in a
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Accenture Joins Hashed Health Blockchain Consortium to Develop Industry Use Cases for Blockchain
Hashed Health has added Accenture as a member of the Hashed Health Blockchain Consortium, a group of leading health companies focused on accelerating innovation with blockchain and distributed ledger technologies, as announced today at the Distributed: Health 2017 conference. As a consortium member, Accenture will focus its efforts on developing industry use cases for blockchain and distributed ledger technologies and identify opportunities where organizations can implement solutions at
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