The virtual workshop, which launched on 22 September and runs through 21 October 2016, will help demystify blockchain technology and give participants a better understanding of its capabilities, with an improved ability to address key challenges in healthcare today relating to privacy and security.
Participants in the IEEE-SA’s Advancing HealthTech for Humanity ™ virtual blockchain workshop will gain a better understanding of several of the key challenges related to healthcare, develop a base level understanding of blockchain technologies, and receive support to leverage participating blockchain platforms available on the market today. Workshop challenges focus on areas such as patient anonymity, addressing the problem of counterfeit medicines, and patient-driven interoperability. Specific challenges for the first virtual workshop include:
- How can we use blockchain-related technologies to drive patient-driven interoperability?
- Can blockchain technology facilitate incentivization of data sharing between patients and researchers?
- Exploring the use of blockchain technology to secure the drug supply chain against counterfeit medicines
- Can the healthcare blockchain be used as a platform to aggregate the many different data stores patient data may live on?
