blockchain technology
Blockchain technology has the potential to transform healthcare, from securing patient data to reducing the risks for data breaches.
Industry players see blockchain as a tool for administrative tasks but remain skeptical about cryptocurrency in healthcare.
Optum's blockchain guru describes how the company singles out and pursues the most promising pitches.
From cryptocoin behavior incentives to personal health data sharing, there's no shortage of young companies looking to the distributed ledger technology.
Blockchain is in vogue this year in the healthcare space as innovators find new uses for the technology, which makes information easy to verify and difficult to falsify.