On Sept 1, 2023, Partners in Digital Health, publisher of Blockchain in Healthcare Today (BHTY,) conducted the 4th Annual ConVerge2Xcelerate (ConV2X) Ignition Pitch Competition. The competition was recorded for journal and On Demand broadcast viewing.  Seven competitors in the digital health and DLT markets presented to eight decerning judges. Entrants were asked to demonstrate how products and services directly impact the telehealth and blockchain in healthcare technology fields from around the globe.  Product solution catgories included, but were not limited to:

AI & Tech in Telehealth and Medicine

• Smart home care design, AI, sensors, robotics, chronic care condition(s) using RPM, reducing cost for health systems or patients, enhancing the physician-patient relationship, mixed reality to enhance outcomes in patient care, etc.

Advancing the Business of Health with Blockchain Technology

• Monetization of data,  interoperability, improving population health, precision medicine, public health & equity, digital twins, secure identity, DeFi, medical metaverse, supply chain, clinical trials, etc.

Scores were rated from 1-5, with 5 being the highest/best. Criteria appears below. Scores were taillied, and winners selected for each category.

• Impact:
  • How likely is the solution to improve outcomes for the problem identified?
• Innovation:
  • Does the team provide a convincing rationale for why their solution may work?
  • Does the solution provide a creative approach and address specific user needs?
• Scalability:
  • How easy would it be to develop and implement this solution?
  • Could this solution scale across different markets and therapeutic areas?
• Presentation:
  • How effective was the presentation overall?
  • Was the solution they are proposing convincingly articulated, presented or visualized?

Journal publisher and ConV2X curator shares vision and insights for scientific communications and scholarly publishing along with market predictions for the digital health and blockchain in healthcare emeging markets and research fields.

Biography

Tory Cenaj is the Founder and Publisher of Partners in Digital Health (PDH), a forward reaching publishing and communications company. PDH publishes Blockchain in Healthcare Today, the world’s first open access peer reviewed journal disseminating distributed ledger technology research and innovations in healthcare, and Telehealth and Medicine Today, the international  open access peer reviewed journal examining the value of telehealth and clinical automation. The portfolio includes the companion Converge2Xcelerate (ConV2X) annual symposium, pitch competition, and PDH Institute. Her leadership experience reflects all facets of healthcare publishing and communications heading a premier MM dollar multispecialty portfolio including digital and international licensing across five continenets. Her industry experience includes leading publication planning, P&L, medical education and clinical trials management. She currently serves as executive advisor to the IEEE SA in telehealth and DCT verticals in addition to her role as publisher.

The award was announced during the ConV2X 2021 conference, themed “Blueprint for a New Digital Health Era,” broadcast November 9-11, 2021. The winning article is titled: "The Last Mile: DSCSA Solution Through Blockchain Technology: Drug Tracking, Tracing, and Verification at the Last Mile of the Pharmaceutical Supply Chain with BRUINchain," by lead author William Chien (PharmD, MBA) and fellow authors from UCLA Health and LedgerDomain. The article is located at https://doi.org/10.30953/bhty.v3.134.

The groundbreaking article was part of the FDA’s Pilot Project Program for the Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA), and centered on a healthcare center pharmacy operating solely on commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) technology. It presented the highest number of BHTY 2020 reader engagements, with the most downloads and views.

The study demonstrated a 100% success rate across scanning, expiration detection, and counterfeit detection; and paperwork reduction from approximately 1 hour to less than a minute. Projecting out to 4.2 billion prescriptions being dispensed each year in the United States, the study found that distributed ledger technologies (such as blockchain) would not only save $183 million in annual labor costs, but also avert bad or fraudulent transactions, reduce the need for safety stock, and enhance the detection and removal of potentially dangerous drugs from the drug supply chain to protect U.S. consumers.

The editorial is taken from commentary presented at the ConVerge2Xcelerate (#ConV2X) 2021 Symposium entitled "Blueprint for a New Digital Health Era." Tory Cenaj is the Owner and Publisher of Partners in Digital Health (PDH). The views expressed are solely her own and do not reflect those of the editorial board, reviewers, ambassadors, licensees or staff members affiliated with PDH.  

During our 2019 ConVerge2Xcelerate (ConV2X) conference in Boston, we focused on the theme "Proving Market Value with Pragmatic Innovation in Healthcare" (see https://conv2x-2019.eventcreate.com/). This year, along with BHTY editorial board members, conference speakers were invited to join with Tory Cenaj, Publisher of BHTY, to contribute their expertise and share insights for the near-term landscape of blockchain in healthcare.  

In 2020, Blockchain in Healthcare Today (BHTY) begins its third year of publication. We thank our global community of passionate leaders and early adopters for their support and diligence in making technology innovation in healthcare attainable for both the healthcare consumers who are the key stakeholders in patient-centered care and the broader healthcare system.

To review blockchain lessons learned in 2018 and near-future predictions for blockchain in healthcare, Blockchain in Healthcare Today (BHTY) asked the world's blockchain in healthcare experts to share their insights. Here, our internationally-renowned BHTY peer-review board discusses their major predictions.Based on their responses, presented in detail below, ten major themes (Table ) for the future of blockchain in healthcare will emerge over the 12 months. CORRIGENDUM: This following paragraph has been corrected (page 3, first paragraph) from: "Fourth, with over 1000 insurance companies in the country, filling out paperwork to documentprovider training and licensure is a nightmare. The Synaptic Health Alliance aims to simplifythis process by putting all credentialing information on a distributed public ledger for all stakeholders to access.1" To: "Fourth, keeping health care provider directories maintained by health plans up-to-date is a critical, complex issue facing organizations across the health care system. The first project of the Synaptic Health Alliance aims to simplify this process by putting provider demographic information on a permissioned blockchain for Alliance members to access and maintain.1"

No abstract available.