Industry Report: EU Gets Serious, Blockchain Does Healthcare
Want to catch up on the latest digital currency news? Recently, the EU has been making waves in the blockchain space. Take a gander at the stories below to see what you’ve been missing. The European Union is getting serious about bitcoin. Digital currency exchange Bitstamp has received an official license from Luxembourg, a little country with some large aspirations, making it Europe’s first fully regulated institution for bitcoin. Several newcomers are now looking to get in on the trade, and crypto popularity in Europe is expected to increase tenfold. The license is set go into effect on....
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Hashed Health, a new collaborative healthcare innovation company, has announced a major partnership with Martin Ventures, a global leader in healthcare and technology initiative investment. Its mission is to bring together leading healthcare enterprises in order to advance distributed ledger solutions that address the unique issues and regulatory regimes of the healthcare industry. In a keynote address at Distributed: Health in Nashville, Tennessee, Hashed Health COO Corey Todaro told an audience of healthcare industry and blockchain specialists about the company’s multi-pronged approach.....
The EU Blockchain Observatory envisions distributed ledger technology delivering the Healthcare 4.0-era. The EU Blockchain Observatory published its fifth report under the headline “Blockchain Applications in the Healthcare Sector.” The document highlights the importance of distributed ledger technology for the European healthcare sector, which faces a number of challenges on its route to the “Healthcare 4.0” revolution.The 66-page document was announced on the EU Blockchain Observatory's Twitter on April 11. Its authors take an optimistic perspective on the implementation of blockchain....
The GemOS operating system gives the healthcare industry convenient access to securing patient data, while adding it to a blockchain that can be shared across departments in real-time. The healthcare industry can benefit tremendously from embracing blockchain solutions, and Gem is providing the sector with exactly that. Gem Health, as this initiative is called, focuses on optimizing the supply chain and optimizing clinical data management. With all of the recent attention on the healthcare industry through crypto-ransomware attacks and other cybersecurity threats, it became abundantly....