Blockchain Applications in the Healthcare Sector

BurstIQ’s Chief Scientific Officer, Wendy Charles, PhD, provided major contributions to the The EU Blockchain Observatory and Forum’s newly published report “Blockchain Applications in the Healthcare Sector”.

The report

  • provides an overview of challenges in the healthcare industry, blockchain applications for healthcare data and transparency
  • presents blockchain applications for pharmaceutical and healthcare supply chain and blockchain in medical credentialing,
  • includes experts’ opinion on opportunities and challenges
  • discusses the role of blockchain in COVID-19 pandemic management
  • explores regulatory, privacy and ethical implications, including health data accuracy as well as regulatory and ethical considerations
  • gives a practical overview of what the future holds, through the presentation of relevant use cases
  • explains the challenges and future prospects while it discusses relevant policy recommendations.

You can read or download the report here.

About BurstIQ

BurstIQ is the leading provider of blockchain-enabled data solutions for the identity, healthcare and life sciences industries. The company’s secure data exchange network combines blockchain, multi-layered governance and best-in-class security to build multi-dimensional profiles, called LifeGraphs®, of people, places and things, and empower the connections between them. LifeGraph® Network allows organizations to manage the ownership and sharing of sensitive data, with consent, governance and process automation built in. The result is a global, secure data network that allows health systems, payers, digital health companies, pharma & life science companies and governments to collaborate, share, discover and build the impossible.

For more information visit: www.burstiq.com| Facebook| Twitter| LinkedIn| YouTube