Top 12 Companies Bringing Blockchain To Healthcare

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 chains, many companies aim to leverage its powers for healthcare. We collected the most promising enterprises here. The buzzword of the year award goes to blockchain It would be a big surprise if the buzzword of the year award would not go to blockchain in 2018. Although the technology is indeed a game-changer, the craze and hype around it remind some experts of the dotcom bubble. As Reuters explained in its analysis, the average share price of companies who have jumped on the blockchain bandwagon and visualized the change at least in their name has risen more than threefold since their re-branding. John Oliver joked with the blockchain buzz by changing the name of his show to Last Bit Tonight with Block Chainiver. No wonder that there are hundreds of companies, start-ups, enterprises, ventures experimenting with blockchain technology. Similarly, as in the case of artificial intelligence, there are crazy places where the mechanism behind cryptocurrencies pops up. Just look at how Kodak and Long Island Ice Tea tried to leverage on the blockchain. That is why it is a Sisyphean task to offer a list of companies who are worth remembering when it comes to the blockchain, not to speak about blockchain in healthcare. Moreover, ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - Category: Information Technology Authors: Tags: Security & Privacy AI artificial intelligence big data blockchain future genetics genomics Health health data health IT health market Innovation Personalized medicine Source Type: blogs