Health Unchained Podcast

UK based electronic health records Pilot with Groves Medical Group Benefits of international medical consultations using cryptocurrencies Telemedicine technology Hospitals, non-profit, universities as Guardians of data The importance of having access to medical records for a surgeon Working at the NHS as a clinical doctor Why healthcare industry is a laggard in technology adoption? Touch Surgery using augmented reality to train surgeons and improve patient results Prevention is better than treatment Who will be primary users? MyClinic.com is Medicalchain’s new telemedicine service that is being piloted with the Grove Medical Group in London, offering over 30,000 patients the ability to connect with their provider on a video platform. https://medicalchain.com/en/ https://myclinic.com/ News Corner: https://medium.com/medicalchain/medicalchain-announces-a-partnership-with-the-groves-medical-group-london-98c30372998b

Tracking drugs after they’ve left the manufacturer has traditionally been an afterthought. Pharmaceutical companies now want to use downstream post-delivery data to improve their products and ensure quality. Healthcare regulators would like to see better management of drugs throughout the entire drug life cycle. Identifying counterfeit drugs is a huge global challenge and the pharma industry is still struggling to find a trustworthy solution. In this episode, Darryl Glover (Chief Clinical Officer, iSolve) shares his insight on how their project, BlockRx , can help certify provenance of drugs using permissioned/private blockchains with Intel’s Hyperledger Sawtooth and Microsoft’s Coco Framework. Guest email: dglover@isolve.io https://www.blockrx.com/ Health Unchained New Corner: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-30/can-blockchain-fix-the-opioid-epidemic-intel-wants-to-find-out

Electronic file cabinet on your phone Medical record ownership How blockchain can verify provenance of medical data Consumer first adoption as a strategic decision not hospital systems consortiums Origins of Health Wizz (acquisition of KreateIoT) and Omcoin tokens Wearable data and digital health identity Using the ethereum blockchain for trading digital healthcare assets and reward tokens New technology adoption challenges in the healthcare industry Integrating blockchain with APIs How does Health Wizz differ from other medical records blockchain companies? Earning tokens for winning local health challenges – But why? Amazon’s potential entry into healthcare Better user experiences similar to Waze UPort as an identity layer - https://www.uport.me/ What are the initial reactions from new users and potential investors? How will Health Wizz generate revenue? Interoperability with FHIR https://www.hl7.org/fhir/ and S.M.A.R.T. https://smarthealthit.org/ Three big tidal waves of healthcare innovation – 1. Consumer awareness of data ownership. 2. Opening up the data from electronic health records. 3. Emergence of easier-to-use technologies Health Wizz participated in 2017 Consensys Conference NYC competition. They will be attendees in 2018. https://www.healthwizz.net/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/rajsharmar/