Blockchain Healthcare Conference Showcases Skepticism and Promise
"It’s all possible with blockchain…" You hear this over and over at industry conferences. But this time, at the Distributed: Health conference in Nashville, this pie-in the-sky statement got a bit more pushback than usual. According to many of the speakers at the on 3rd October show, blockchain tech stands to disrupt the complex and frustrating healthcare system in a positive way, mostly revolving around simplifying the management and transfer of health records and information. Chris Kay, senior vice president and chief innovation officer at Humana, said during the morning....
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