By Rachel Wolfson, contributor, Forbes | June 13, 2019 The United States Food and Drug Administration (USFDA) announced today that IBM, KPMG, Merck and Walmart will be included in a pilot project in support of the U.S. Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA). Together, these companies will address the requirements [...]
By Heather Landi, Fierce Healthcare | April 30, 2019 Indiana University Health and Raleigh, North Carolina-based WakeMed Health & Hospitals have teamed up with blockchain and pharmacy companies to better track specialty prescription drugs. The group will test implementation of the Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA) starting in August. [...]
By Mike Milliard, Healthcare Finance News | August 27, 2018 The technology is "getting closer to its breakout moment," says Deloitte, whose new survey finds healthcare organizations seeing "disruption." Healthcare organizations' understanding and appreciation of blockchain has evolved over the past years and more and more health systems are realizing [...]
By Mike Miliard |May 03, 2018 Blockchain holds big potential for overcoming issues of trust and ironing out technology wrinkles in the sharing of clinical and financial data in healthcare. While that is becoming increasingly widely discussed, it’s also true that the distributed digital ledger technology is still somewhat shrouded [...]
By Bertalan Meskó, The Medical Futurist | March 2018 Security, trust, traceability, and control – these are the promises of the blockchain, the technology with the most potential in healthcare at the moment. As these are highly attractive traits for storing sensitive health data or for the operation of supply [...]
