HIMSS19 & Blockchain: The Needle Moves

HIMSS19 & Blockchain: The Needle Moves  What a difference a year makes. Last year at the HIMSS18 conference I had to search far and wide for resources on blockchain technology. At HIMSS19 last week in Orlando, it was another story all together.With the crypto...

Blockchain & Healthcare: Has the Killer App Arrived?

Blockchain & Healthcare: Has the Killer App Arrived? Everywhere I look in healthcare technology I’m seeing claims that blockchain technology is the silver bullet. We are being told that distributed ledgers will solve all the pain points found in interoperability...

Long Data at HIMSS 2018

Long Data at HIMSS 2018 We are just a couple of weeks away from the annual HIMSS conference and I will be looking for trends not on “big data” but “long data”. By that I mean blockchain technology. HIMSS states “Blockchain is revolutionizing the way health information...

Death of the Middleman: Healthcare & Blockchain

Death of the Middleman: Healthcare & Blockchain I’ve seen it twice before. Some new technology drops out of the sky and within a few years we are living in a different world. First, we witnessed the rise of the personal computer. In the early days it was only the...