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Will Blockchain Ever Really Matter in Healthcare?

May 24, 2019

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Blockchain (Distributed Ledger Technologies or DLT) is being touted as the next technology to revolutionize healthcare. It has been presented as the answer for everything from interoperability to insurance processing. But is it really?

I have spent years in product management organizations, where the ultimate goal was to get viable commercial solutions to market, I am skeptical of many early blockchain claims. If the attitude is “blockchain is the answer, what’s the question?” there is a high probability that many of the proposed use cases for blockchain will not solve the panaceas they claim to solve.

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