Healthcare Blockchain Summit Coming to D.C.

The Healthcare Blockchain Summit, organized by The Center for Business Innovation (TCBI) and Krysalis Labs, will be held in Washington, DC on March 20-21, 2017. Blockchain technology is poised to transform healthcare services and business models.

Summit attendees will learn how to implement pilot projects and applications that improve quality, reduce the cost of healthcare services and clinical trials, promote interoperability, enhance security, and enable vastly extended capabilities for tracking patient behaviors and integrating care in increasingly complex provider networks.

The audience for the Summit includes healthcare providers, payers, technology companies, financiers and government officials.

Key topics to be covered include:

  • Blockchain innovation in healthcare services and its role in facilitating care coordination, patient engagement and population health management
  • Regulation and standards for blockchain and the role of government in promoting the use of blockchain
  • Strategies for accelerating the development of a blockchain ecosystem
  • Blockchains as platforms
  • Blockchain and IoT in healthcare
  • Blockchain applications for identity management
  • Using blockchain to facilitate health information exchange and interoperability
  • Precision medicine and blockchain
  • Building a patient-centered health IT infrastructure using blockchain
  • Blockchain applications for provider data management
  • Blockchain use cases for rare disease and social determinants of health

 

The Summit will feature over 40 speakers, including:

Debbie Bucci, Office of Standards and Interoperability, ONC, HHS

Kyle Culver, Solution Architect, Humana

Jason Goldwater, Senior Director, National Quality Forum

Simon Lin, MD, MBA, Chief Research Information Officer, Nationwide Children’s Hospital & Professor of Pediatrics and Biomedical Informatics, Ohio State University

John Mattison, MD, Assistant Medical Director & Chief Medical Information Officer, Kaiser Permanente, SCAL

Jody Ranck, DrPH, CEO, Krysalis Labs & Executive Vice President of Strategy, Ram Group

David Schweikert [AZ-06], Congressman, U.S. House of Representatives

For additional information on the Summit and to register, please visit: http://tcbi.org/hcblockchainsummit/