Blockchain in Healthcare Interoperability

Blockchain in Healthcare is forecasted to save the industry $100B annually by 2025 by reducing operational costs in insurance process and insurance fraud – BIS Research forecast.  Healthcare Blockchain can also play a critical role in overcoming the challenges associated with legacy systems by solving the widespread problem of interoperability and non-standardizations that have created data silos.  Further,  JP Morgan estimates that healthcare blockchain could save up to 80% of the current cost and time invested in physician credentialing.

I am happy to announce that I am now a certified Blockchain Solutions Architect and going to to creating the interoperability solutions needed for the healthcare industry with state of the art technologies

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Covid-19 Interoperability

One of the major challenges in combating the Covid-19 pandemic has been the inability to share data across the appropriate agencies and organizations.  This is due to issues and challenges around security, privacy, data standards, data interoperability, and infrastructure.

The Health IT Advisory Committee is setting up a corona virus task force to tackle  interoperability issues that are impeding front-line clinicians as they combat the growing outbreak.  The agency has posted recent interoperability guidelines for reporting, exchanging data, record keeping and claims.  The following is the link to the latest guidelines from the different agencies

https://www.healthit.gov/isa/covid-19

More on the CMS’ new interoperability regulations in the next post