Tag: Proof-of-Concept

Proof-of-Concept, also known as an MVP, is delivered from a pilot project that demonstrates that a design concept is feasible for further production.

Upheaval partners with Naturally Chiropractic for Proof-of-Concept implementation of the Weave enterprise blockchain technology

LAKE STEVENS, WA: Upheaval LLC, innovators of patent-pending blockchain technology the Weave, today announced a strategic partnership with Chiropractic clinic Naturally Chiropractic Family Wellness Center. With the partnership, Upheaval will create a Proof-of-Concept implementation of the Weave, and demonstrate how its unique blockchain technology can secure and streamline healthcare processes for the clinic, their billing processes and reporting, and for their patients.

“We’re designing and building the Weave for a massive global scale. That begins with listening to customers who will use it every day, and clearly understanding how it will make their lives better,” said David Iseminger, Upheaval’s CEO. “With a close customer partnership during these early design and development phases, we can quickly iterate to ensure a customer-centric implementation. It enables us to be extremely agile and responsive, and to guide our customers to where they want to be – in a better place, with innovative technology that helps their businesses be more effective, and thrive.”

Part of the strategic partnership includes refining a handheld app for patients, that provides better insights to their care, in ways that are more accessible to them, and portable. “We want patients, and people, to have access and control over their medical history. When they move, their records should easily move with them.” 

“We’re excited about the partnership,” said Dr. Nicole Morin, co-owner of Naturally Chiropractic. “There’s a whole host of benefits that the Weave’s blockchain software could bring, including securing and streamlining paperwork. I spend as much as 20% of my time in administrative work, even with the software systems we currently have. That time would be better spent with patients.” Dr. Dan Morin, also co-owner, added, “Patients would really benefit from having access to the services we’ve provided, and what they can do at home to enhance their health and healing. Connecting our services with an app that patients could securely access would help the partnership between patient and provider, and the results that come from that successful partnership.” 

“We believe the Weave can deliver on the promise of blockchain for healthcare, with a solution that’s secure yet accessible, immensely scalable, and high performing,” said David Iseminger, Upheaval’s CEO. “By understanding in-the-moment patient and doctor interactions, insurance billing, government oversight, and how patients would best use our app for their records, we ensure that scalability to large offices and corporations is grounded in real customer needs, in real-life activities.” 

With the partnership, Upheaval and Naturally Chiropractic will partner to deliver a blockchain solution that integrates with their existing systems, streamlines their processes, elevates their patients’ wellness, and delivers big data analytics. As the Weave scales to other clinics, large providers, and global healthcare solutions, subscribers to the Weave will realize a better healthcare experience, for their organization and for their patients. 

About Naturally Chiropractic

Naturally Chiropractic is a family-owned wellness center located in Lake Stevens, WA. Dr. Dan Morin and Dr. Nicole Morin believe that everyone deserves to be healthy for a lifetime – why would you and your family live with anything less? Their goal is to unleash possibilities, one adjustment at a time, and have served Lake Stevens and the surrounding communities for two decades. 

Learn more about Naturally Chiropractic, visit – http://www.naturallychiropractic.net/

About Upheaval

Upheaval creates innovative software solutions, including the patent-pending Weave blockchain environment, that elevate and transform industries. With the Weave, organizations connect real-time, real-world interactions and create network effects that empower every participant. 

To learn more about Upheaval and the Weave, visit: http://theweave.io

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Canadian Startup Peer Ledger Addressing Digital Identities with Blockchain

Peer Ledger is a Canadian blockchain software startup that specializes in identity management. Their primary current offering, Identity Bridge, links blockchain accounts to externally certified real-world identities. This real-to-digital identity mapping, according to the Peer Ledger vision, will bestow blockchain credentials with a trustworthiness that they lacked before this innovation. The company believes that trust-sensitive industries such as healthcare are an ideal fit for their solution. Peer Ledger recently teamed up with two leaders in the digital identity space to prove that it was possible to successfully map trusted, verified identities to otherwise anonymous blockchain accounts. In doing so, Peer Ledger believes they’ve helped pave the way for certain types of trust-sensitive software, such as clinical trial applications, to finally make full use of the blockchain platform.

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Peer Ledger Ensuring trustworthy identity management with blockchain

Peer Ledger sees itself as providing the missing piece in the project of establishing verified, trustworthy digital identities in the blockchain. Presently, applications built on the blockchain verify identities by matching pairs of private and public keys. However, because users can link any identity to their blockchain account, digital identities in the blockchain have a critical vulnerability when it comes to trust. Consequently, digital identities in the blockchain lack the reliability they need in industries such as healthcare, where a trustworthy digital identity is critical to the integrity of nearly every application. To bridge the trust gap, Peer Ledger makes use of the public key infrastructure (PKI) system to certify identities outside the blockchain before binding them to blockchain accounts. The result, according to the company, is that blockchain-based applications that take advantage of Peer Ledger’s Identity Bridge solution will now have verified, certified, trustworthy identities that users can count on in trust-sensitive industries such as healthcare.

The Peer Ledger portal

The Peer Ledger portal has an interface for both admins and regular users. The admin interface primarily enables admins to issue and revoke mappings of certified digital identities to blockchain accounts. The standard user interface allows regular users to visit their security profiles and make updates to their certificate information, as well as other related fields.

Recent proof-of-concept for healthcare applications

Peer Ledger recently teamed up with digital identity standards provider SAFE-BioPharma and Synchronoss (NASDAQ:SNCR) to demonstrate through a proof-of-concept study that they could employ their solution to ensure the trustworthiness of the digital identities used in blockchain transactions. For example, clinical trials that are double-blind require known identities. However, prior to this proof-of-concept, it has been taken for granted that identities involved in blockchain transactions are anonymous. Therefore, it appeared that double-blind clinical trial transactions could not take place on the blockchain. Yet this study has shown that it’s possible to systematically link otherwise anonymous blockchain postings to proven identities, in this case SAFE-BioPharma compliant credentials. Further, the blockchain postings can remain anonymous for as long as necessary, such as for the duration of the clinical trial, before the system matches them to their verified external identities for the sake of regulatory compliance or clinical need.

The future of digital identity

Peer Ledger is building a new breed of identity management software designed to ensure the trustworthiness of digital identities attached to blockchain accounts. Their essential idea is to map externally certified identities to blockchain accounts whose identities would otherwise remain either anonymous or unreliable. Admins can perform the mappings, and users can update their certificates, through the Identity Bridge portal. This real-to-digital identity mapping, according to the Peer Ledger vision, will bestow blockchain credentials with a trustworthiness that they lacked up to this point. Peer Ledger teamed up with SAFE-BioPharma and Synchronoss for a proof-of-concept that successfully demonstrated that they could de-anonymize blockchain accounts to make certain trust-sensitive software, such as clinical trial applications, a viable option for blockchain-based platforms. According to the startup, not only the clinical trial space, but the trust-sensitive healthcare industry as whole, could make use of their demonstrated solution. 

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