The annual ConV2X is a leading international health tech symposium driving real world evidence, strategy, research, operations and trends to create a blueprint for a new digital health era. The 2021 symposium featured a scientific program of academic/research presentations in addition to business and industry talks. The research track focused on exploring and sharing developments in blockchain and emerging technologies in health and clinical medicine. Submissions were based on original research, conceptual frameworks, proposed applications, position papers, case studies, and real-world implementation. Selection was based on a peer-review process. Faculty, students, and industry researchers were encouraged to submit abstracts to present ideas before an informed and knowledgeable audience of industry leaders, policy makers, funders, and researchers.

This presentation was selected by the scientific review committee.

Submission Review Committee

• Dave Kochalko, CEO of ARTiFACTS
• Anjum Khurshid, UT Austin
• Carlos Caldas, UT Engineering
• Gil Alterovitz, Harvard Medical School
• Kayo Fujimoto, UT Health Houston
• Lei Zhang, University of Glasglow
• Sean Manion, CSciO of ConsenSys Health
• Vijayakuman Varadarajan, University of South Wales
• Vikram Dhillon, Wayne State University
• Yuichi Ikeda, Kyoto University

The annual ConV2X is a leading international health tech symposium driving real world evidence, strategy, research, operations and trends to create a blueprint for a new digital health era. The 2021 symposium featured a scientific program of academic/research presentations in addition to business and industry talks. The research track focused on exploring and sharing developments in blockchain and emerging technologies in health and clinical medicine. Submissions were based on original research, conceptual frameworks, proposed applications, position papers, case studies, and real-world implementation. Selection was based on a peer-review process. Faculty, students, and industry researchers were encouraged to submit abstracts to present ideas before an informed and knowledgeable audience of industry leaders, policy makers, funders, and researchers.

This presentation was selected by the scientific review committee.

Submission Review Committee

• Dave Kochalko, CEO of ARTiFACTS
• Anjum Khurshid, UT Austin
• Carlos Caldas, UT Engineering
• Gil Alterovitz, Harvard Medical School
• Kayo Fujimoto, UT Health Houston
• Lei Zhang, University of Glasglow
• Sean Manion, CSciO of ConsenSys Health
• Vijayakuman Varadarajan, University of South Wales
• Vikram Dhillon, Wayne State University
• Yuichi Ikeda, Kyoto University

Session Description: Significant portions of usable, and funded research never make it through the data funnel, getting lost as "dark knowledge." Blockchain technology offers new ways to bring this dark knowledge to light.  The panel will discuss how blockchain technology impacts research and scholarly outputs including attribution, reproducibility, immutibility and peer review. Discussions will include how the technology can promote more knowledge, abbreviating time to market. Emerging use cases will be highlighted to demonstrate how the technology has dislodged traditional academic publishing practices including the ability to mine dark knowledge for potential scientific break throughs.