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Watch the stream of the event's first day in its entirety, with discussions on hot topics including blockchain, cybersecurity and patient advocacy.
Medicalchain is using distributed ledger technology to enable patients to find all their medical data in one place, says SVP of Operations Wael Alkhalidi.
HIMSS Director of Informatics Mari Greenberger says blockchain as a tool, not a goal, can help rid redundancy, time and money that it takes to solve problems.
Wende Hutton, general partner at Canaan Partners, says that while there is room for improvement in transparency and patient identification, there's also the potential for blockchain to be corrupted.