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Volume 7, Issue 3, 2024

Online ISSN: 2573-8240

Volume 7 , Issue 3, (2024)

Published: 16.12.2024.

Open Access

Blockchain in Healthcare Today (BHTY) is the leading international open access journal that amplifies and disseminates platform approaches in healthcare and distributed ledger technology research and innovations. Fields of interest include healthcare information systems, leveraging data science tools and techniques, interoperability, consent mechanisms, privacy preservation, security of health data, clinical trials management, supply chain management, revenue cycle automation, immersive technologies, tokenomics, governance, regulation, network technologies, clinical computing, cryptography, and failed experiments in this expanding specialty field of research.

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21.04.2024.

Podcast

Blockchain in Health - From Pilots to Mainstream and Implications for AI

Speakers delve into and beyond the previously published BHHTY journal article “Moving Beyond Proof of Concept and Pilots to Mainstream: Discovery and Lessons from Blockchain in Healthcare,” located at https://doi.org/10.30953/bhty.v6.280. This continuous enterprise blockchain technology journey extends the framework and solution assemblies including further developments, with cross over into generative AI and ethics. Objectives Learn specific examples on the economics of blockchain revealing low-hanging fruit for the move from pilots to adoption. Explore concepts such as: Data integrity, minimal data, inter-entity streamlining leading to efficiencies, and what is already possible with tech stack developments and economics in efficiency (in millions) from the previously published BHTY article at DOI: https://doi.org/10.30953/bhty.v6.280 Learn from other verticals to build a framework that is more comprehensive encompassing global perspectives Future proofing and stair-stepping design for an evolving technology – holistic guidance to find and execute the opportunities Obtain a framework for blockchain adoption based on the article. In addition, authors address the academic view of blockchain adoption, and that it is a combination of tech, policy, economics, consumer engagement, and operationalization. Acquire multi-dimensional discovery and specific blockchain constructs including provenance- consensus, trust maps, convergence, dApp human loops, and future proofing /stair-stepping Grasp global perspectives on evolving frameworks with in many verticals and the multi-dimensional nature of blockchain transformation, operationalization, blockchain-enterprise landscape, and AI automation. Gain a better understanding of why is blockchain an essential technology for the future of responsible AI and for scalability of solutions

Sathya Krishnasamy, MS, Badri Gopalakrishnan, PhD, Atul Apte, BSc, MODERATOR: Anjum Khurshid, MD, PhD

29.12.2023.

Narrative/Systematic Review/Meta-Analysis

Moving Beyond POCs and Pilots to Mainstream: Discovery and Lessons from Blockchain in Healthcare

Blockchain technologies has been in the forefront of innovation and is maturing at a fast pace with fintech leading the way. Though the innovation in the permissionless space is high, the enterprise adoption has still not caught up. The reasons include a variety of reasons including inadequate understanding of the technology, full awareness even in enterprises, unclear regulations, and lack of exploration and evangelism to really understand the reimagination of shared enterprise business processes. Most enterprise blockchain efforts are run from a small exploratory group in large companies and has NOT moved beyond pilots or limited production tryouts in to mainstream adoption at scale. This is because there is not much knowledge about what is possible for reimagining current business processes which are mostly unilateral.  This is more obvious in healthcare. A horizontal transformation enabler like the blockchain technology can effect collaborative business processes in a networked world. This paper explores the root causes for the challengesand suggests a methodology for discovery of the key inflection points for potential collaborative business processes and  the re-engineering that would be needed. Blockchain in enterprise are not an isolated piece of technology, and has to interact with the enterprise assets, and there has to be mechanisms for aggregating the data that is meaningful to the counter parties for shared collaboration. Equally important is solid and a stair-stepping change management plan for the blockchain efforts to meet operations mainstream and gradually move the operations to the end state. Possibilities and results of the collaborative processes have to be shown in meticulous economic rigor for any possibilities of blockchain efforts getting the enterprise portfolio dollars against many enterprise systems that are already overloading budgets. The paper will cite the journey in a reference implementation with results, findings at the technical, functional, operational and change management levels for healthcare administration executives and portfolio managers.

Sathya Krishnasamy, MS, Badri Narayanan Gopalakrishnan, PhD