Patientory: Blockchain for Secure Peer-to-Peer Medical Records
The first quarter of 2018 saw healthcare data breaches impacting over one million consumers, patients, and health care plan members. With IT and hacking incidents one of the major causes of these breaches, patients and providers alike are eager to find more secure solutions for their data. Enter Patientory, a blockchain solution based out of Atlanta, Georgia,…
Women driving Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Innovation in New Zealand
Over the past 4 months, I have engaged my curiosity about blockchain and the implications for life as we know it, in New Zealand by putting together the first-of-its-kind, Blockchain-Healthcare Symposium. Through the numerous conversations that were borne out of this organization process, arose the unwitting lack of women among the speaker panel. I pondered…
PetLife: Blockchain for Veterinary Medicine
In a time when blockchain is revolutionizing the security and accessibility of healthcare solutions, one company aims to bring those benefits to veterinary medicine. Petlife, an Estonian start-up partnering with a New York-based engineering team, hopes to use blockchain technology to offer telemedicine for pets. According to Petlife’s whitepaper, 54% of respondents to a Health Industry Distributors…
Medvice – medical counseling blockchain AI platform on the Stellar Network
As more and more people utilize the blockchain, it is becoming a key resource in the health care field. This immutable distributed ledger allows participants to cryptographically exchange information that is 100% secure and sourced back to the first transaction. As a result, health care professionals have identified several key ways to take advantage of…
Guide to the US Federal regulatory landscape
On June 14th the SEC director of the corporate finance division, William Hinman, finally declared that Bitcoin and Ethereum are not securities, but rather, commodities that may be legally traded on the open market. This proclomation wasn’t all that groundbreaking, SEC Chairman Jay Clayton made similar statements in December of last year, but nevertheless, casual…
Blockchain Technology Review: Citizen Health Providing People a Voice!
Citizen Health is the new blockchain company on the block that desires to build a digital healthcare ecosystem, globally uniting the citizens of the world. Powered by Ethereum and Medit Token. Practicing preventative medicine Rather than following our current reactive model, Citizen Health’s mission is to create: “An open health economy of the people, for the people, and…
Blockchain Is More Than Just Skin Deep For Dermatologists
Is the $120 billion global skincare industry next in line to be transformed by the blockchain? Leading skincare specialist, Dr Anna Karp, is seeing this happen already in her work with Opu Labs – a blockchain startup dedicated to evolving the way skincare intelligence is shared. Like so many other sectors, skincare isn’t immune to…
Are Blockchain and AI Technologies the Key to Healthy Skin?
While it may seem unlikely that the answer to your skincare woes could be a selfie scan on your smartphone, blockchain and AI trailblazer Opu Labs is now making it possible to improve skincare with their revolutionary mobile skincare platform. Opu was founded to improve how the global skincare industry exchanges data, information, and rewards…
Intiva Health – Hashgraph based Medical Credentials Platform
Managing credentials is a time-consuming part of healthcare professionals’ work. They have to keep track of many disparate sources, and getting documentation can take days or weeks. If they could get all their information from one source, they’d clear paperwork hurdles more quickly. Instead of waiting for all the information to arrive to let them…
AmChart: Improving Portability of Records, Giving Patients Control
Filling out a stack of forms is a time-consuming, but expected, part of the first visit to a doctor’s office. For physicians, waiting on patient records is a time-consuming, but expected, part of treating patients. AmChart is aiming to erase those expectations with a whole new way of dealing with patient records. What Is It? AmChart is…