by Jim Tate | Feb 20, 2019 | General
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 madness now in the rear view mirror the real...
by Jim Tate | Sep 18, 2018 | General
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 and soon data will flow like the mighty Mississippi River....
by Jim Tate | Feb 15, 2018 | General
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 is managed,...
by Jim Tate | Feb 7, 2018 | General
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 nerds who saw it coming and naysayers were...