Recently IBM made a major announcement about a partnership that was recently signed with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to use blockchain technology to securely share patient data for medical research and other purposes . This effort is described in more detail in a recent blog by Sean Hogan, IBM’s General Manager for Healthcare and Life Science. Sean’s blog can be accessed at https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/applying-innovative-potential-blockchain-healthcare-sean-m-hogan?trk=prof-post
Also, IBM is sponsoring an upcoming Blockchain HIMMS breakfast briefing-Today’s Healthcare Challenges and How Blockchain Can Help Solve Them Tuesday, February 21 Time: 8:00 – 9:00 am Room 202B. Registration is available at https://surveys.himss.org/checkbox/Survey.aspx?s=7f3c093060dd4e19a304d57f5531b27a
Date: Feb 07, 2017
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