Blockchain technologies hold the promise to unite the disparate processes in healthcare and ultimately improve patient experiences and outcomes. Key healthcare challenges around longitudinal records, identity management and access across multiple solutions all have the ability to be developed on top of blockchain technologies. By developing a shared platform that decentralizes health data without compromising the security of sensitive information, blockchain technologies could lift the costly burden of maintaining patient’s medical histories away from the hospitals, ultimately delivering cost savings back to the patient receiving care.
We spoke with Aaron Symanski, CTO of Change Healthcare about why they decided to join Hyperledger as a Premier member. According to Aaron, it was important for Change Healthcare to get involved with Hyperledger, as they are a leader in blockchain innovation in the healthcare space. Aaron believes blockchain can create a new paradigm for healthcare in data sharing and Change Healthcare is excited to be a part of it.
Change Healthcare will be at HIMSS this year along with Hyperledger. Drop by the Hyperledger booth at 9900-C in the Innovation Zone to learn about blockchain for healthcare and collect your Hyperledger swag! Representatives from Change Healthcare will be in the Hyperledger booth discussing insurance/clinical claims management as a blockchain for healthcare use case.
Emily Vaughn, Product Development Director at Change Healthcare, will speak on behalf of Hyperledger at HIMSS in the Innovation Live Theater on Thursday, March 8 at 3:00. Emily will present Change Healthcare’s Intelligent Healthcare Network, which deploys enterprise-scale, production-ready blockchain powered by Hyperledger Fabric 1.0. In this session, attendees will learn how business blockchain technologies can be used to process clinical, administrative and financial transactions covering $2 trillion in claims each year and ultimately improve the patient experience across the entire healthcare experience.
Emily will also participate in a panel with other Hyperledger members from Intel and Hashed Health on Tuesday, March 6, 9:30-10:30 a.m. “Blockchain Reset – Seeing Through the Hype and Starting Down the Path” will help attendees understand practical strategies for identifying blockchain use cases for your organization.
Learn more about Hyperledger’s onsite activities at HIMSS.
Hyperledger is committed to helping the healthcare industry realize the full potential of blockchain technologies. To this end, Hyperledger formed the Healthcare Working Group. Change Healthcare and other healthcare organizations have come together through this open forum with a mission to further education about appropriate applications for blockchain technologies in the healthcare industry. Through positive collaboration, the group fosters technical and business-level conversations about fundamental distributed ledger applications and how platforms associated with any healthcare solution utilizing a blockchain back-end could be impacted. For more resources, to track and participate in defining healthcare use cases or to join the working group mailing list, visit https://www.hyperledger.org/industries/healthcare.
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