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Alt-currency in healthcare: Gold rush or fool’s gold?

June 16, 2017 By HealthIsCool 3 Comments

Alt-currency in healthcare: Gold rush or fool’s gold?

The rise of alt-currencies in 2017 Bitcoin and other digital currencies have been exploding in 2017. On June 11th, Bitcoin crossed the $3,000 mark for the first time in history, according to the CoinDesk Bitcoin Price Index (BPI), before dropping 10 percent the following ...

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Filed Under: 3, data security, healthcare innovation, Healthcare IT Tagged With: alt-currency, bitcoin, blockchain, crowdsale, cryptocurrency, ethereum, healthcare startups, ICO, Initial Coin Offering, Patientory, startups, token launch

Blockchain hype comes to healthcare

April 5, 2016 By Dan Munro 18 Comments

Blockchain hype comes to healthcare

As to be expected with any “new” and “breakthrough” technology, headlines abound on the promise and enormous potential of this “disruptive” innovation called blockchain. Outside of healthcare, the accolades are breezy, often breathless – if not breathtaking. A great example is ...

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Filed Under: 3, Health care, healthcare innovation Tagged With: bitcoin, blockchain, cryptocurrency, dan munro, ethereum, mike hearn

Rewriting Healthcare on the Blockchain

July 16, 2014 By Leonard Kish 1 Comment

Rewriting Healthcare on the Blockchain

If you’re not already familiar, the blockchain is the real breakthrough in technology that underlies bitcoin. Pay attention because the implications are much, much larger than bitcoin and crypto currencies. The implications affect trading almost any kind of information or asset, ...

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Filed Under: Health care, healthcare innovation Tagged With: bitcoin, blockchain

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[#HITsm chat 11.18.16] Celebrate Passing the #HITsm Torch

November 15, 2016

Moderated by Chad Johnson, @OchoTex, HealthStandards.com Editor and Corepoint Health Senior Marketing Manager. November 18th will be the last #HITsm chat under @HealthStandards. Celebrate ‘Passing the #HITsm torch’ to @techguy @HealthcareScene.

Passing the #HITsm torch

November 10, 2016

The first #HITsm tweet chat was held almost six years ago on Jan 10, 2011. Since that time, we have hosted approximately 280 #HITsm chats. While some of you may have participated in that very first chat (only 15 actually participated), I’m proud to say that the chats and the community have continued to grow […]

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Podcasts

‘Hactivist’ Fred Trotter on the Cancer Moonshot, open source data in healthcare, and more

August 3, 2016

Artificial intelligence is a topic that isn’t going away in the health IT and medical community. One reason it’s come as far as it has is thanks to open sourcing, or shared data. Today’s guest, Fred Trotter, has a lot to say about the Vice President’s Cancer Moonshot initiative – which he was recognized for […]

Sue Schade on gender equality, CIO challenges, and value-based healthcare

July 27, 2016

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