US Government Code-A-Thon to Focus on Blockchain Health Applications
First blockchain came to help fintech, but can it also solve problems associated with healthcare? A government-supported code-a-thon aims to find out. Jointly hosted by blockchain advocacy group Chamber of Digital Commerce (CDC) and the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) for the US Department of Health and Human Services, the event will hand out prizes ranging from $500 to $5,000 to coders who develop the best distributed ledger applications aimed at major US healthcare issues. Applicants for the 14th–15th March event – to be held at Georgetown University in Washington, DC – are....
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