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Industry players see blockchain as a tool for administrative tasks but remain skeptical about cryptocurrency in healthcare.
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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.
DNA, health records, and blood test results are not only intimately personal, they are also a valuable asset to researchers.
Correction: An earlier version of this story included an incorrect funding amount received by OncoPower.
As Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies take off in a gold rush-like fashion, players in the digital health field have jumped on board the cryptocurrency wagon.
A new alcohol and drug recovery app that incentives users with its own cryptocurrency hit the market this week.