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At HIMSS23, David Murtagh, VP of operations at MultiPlan, which cofounded the group with United Healthcare, Humana and others, will speak about payer and provider use cases that are emerging for the distributed ledger.

Competitors Humana, MultiPlan, Optum, Quest Diagnostics and UnitedHealthcare are creating the alliance to advance healthcare uses for blockchain, explains Michael Kim, CIO at MultiPlan.

Lynn Carroll, COO at HSBlox, discusses how community care networks, with the help of blockchain and AI, can boost value-based care.

Patientory CEO Chrissa McFarlane says her company collects data not found in an electronic health record and uses it to create a personalized health plan.

Brett Furst, president of the HHS Technology Group, says the COVID-19 pandemic provides a "perfect example" for why the distributed ledger technology was invented.

Sunny Grewal, co-founder and COO of startup OMNY Health, whose distributed ledger technology was the top pick at the "Shark Tank"-like competition, explains on how the tech can help hospitals monetize mounds of unused data.

The value of blockchain in healthcare goes beyond data ownership, access and control, as well as consent management, says Mirko De Maldè, president at Government Blockchain Association Italy.

Blockchain technology can be a game-changer, but it’s still in its infancy, so manage expectations accordingly, says Dr. Abdullah Albeyatti, CEO and co-founder at Medicalchain.

Tej Anand, professor of practice at the University of Texas' McCombs School of Business, explains how blockchain can help eliminate "redundant work, rework and reconciliation."

CEO Raja Sharif says FarmaTrust is using blockchain to ensure greater data integrity in areas such as AI, analytics and regulatory reporting, which can increase public confidence in the use of data.