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February 24, 2018, 12:51:05 AM |
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For sure. Here are just a few organizations actively exploring the blockchain's benefits for healthcare: the FDA, CDC, IBM, Humana, UnitedHealthcare, Pfizer, Genetech, Mayo Clinic.
The exact timing is really whats up for debate. The healthcare industry is massive and new technologies diffuse slowly. Healthcare IT budgets outside of top academic hospitals are fairly limited so blockchain adoption will mostly be driven by solutions that can demonstrate clear cost savings either in operational efficiencies, compliance savings, or fewer hospitalizations/negative outcomes. May not be the sexy ideas that win at first but it opens the door to wider adoption down the road.
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