Crypto-Secure Data Management for Healthcare Wei Hu, BS, MS | Senior Vice President of Development, Oracle, Palo Alto, California, United States Blockchain is a new technology that has attracted a tremendous amount of interest. However, up to now, blockchain has mainly been used to develop decentralized multi-party applications. This presentation describes breakthrough technology that deeply integrates blockchain into the Oracle database. Since virtually all critical data are stored in...

Developing a Secure Internet-based Network of Trusted Data Thomas Hardjono, PhD | Chief Technical Officer, MIT Connection Science and Engineering. MIT Connection Science, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USAFlorence Hudson, BSE | Founder and CEO, FDHint, LLC; Chair, IEEE-Standards Association working group (IEEE/UL P2933) for Clinical Internet of Things (IOT) Data and Device Interoperability with TIPPSS – Trust, Identity, Privacy, Protections, Safety, Security Our world has not caught up with...

Data Economy in Healthcare on Blockchain Technology Kevin Yavuz | Managing Consultant Blockchain, Data and Technology Transformation, IBM The importance of data and digitization in healthcare cannot be overstated. These advancements have the potential to revolutionize the way healthcare is delivered, leading to improved patient outcomes, enhanced efficiency, and better decision-making by healthcare providers. Blockchain technology can play a significant role in addressing the main challenges...

Keeping Up With Generative Intelligence Near Term with Jepson Taylor In an era where technology is transforming every facet of our lives, the healthcare sector stands to gain immensely. The presentation addresses intelligence and the ability to acquire knowledge, through experience, and apply that to future decisions, data, beating human benchmarks, and cost & time. In addition, the speaker explores the role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in revolutionizing healthcare over the next...

Blockchain in Health - From Pilots to Mainstream and Implications for AI Speakers delve into and beyond the BHTY published 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 journey extends the framework and solution assemblies including further developments, with cross over into generative AI and ethics. Article Authors and Speakers Sathya Krishnasamy, MS |...

Groundbreaking Scalable Initiative That Controls "Pack" vs "Batch" Daniel Laverick | Head of SAP and IT Solutions, Zuellig Pharma How is blockchain technology empowering patients to verify provenance and quality of COVID-19 vaccines and other lifesaving drugs through Asia's first blockchain solution for supply chain connectivity and traceability for pharmaceuticals and vaccines? With two million products on the blockchain network, this ground breaking scalable initiative controls "pack" vs...

Best Practices to Improve Healthcare Delivery Using AI Prasad Kothari, Director, Axtria Health Tarun Mohan Lal, Vice President, Chief Analytics and Solutions Officer, Atrium/Navicent and incoming President of Society for Health Systems Dr. Anand S. Rao, Partner and Global AI Lead, PwC Swathi Young, Chief Technology Officer, Integrity Management Services Inc. A candid discussion that dives into the recesses of AI and ethics including topics such as what lessons can be used in healthcare...

Empowering and Protecting Patient Data with Open Source DLT's Maria Palombini | Director, Healthcare & LIfe Science Global Practice Lead, IEEE SASachin Shetty | Associate Director , Virginia Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Center (VMASC), Old Dominion University, and Executive Director of the Center for Secure and Intelligent Critical SystemsDaniel Harrell, PhD | Research Associate, Department of Population Health, Dell Medical School, University of Texas at AustinKey discussion points...

Bringing Acute-level care Into the Home Dr. Sandeep Pulim | Medical Director, BiofourmisUntil recently, acute care technological innovations were centered on improvements in procedural interventions or critical care. Accelerated by the pandemic, there has been a shift and developing interest in bringing acute-level care into the home. As a result, more tech-enabled improvements are supporting decentralized care models. Developments in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML),...

Utilizing a Strategic Framework That Redefines the Roles of Collaboration and Innovation Tom Andriola | Vice Chancellor, Information, Technology and Data & Chief Digital Officer, UC Irvine HealthMany organizations talk about the power of data but too few really understand the full potential.  Utilizing a strategic framework that redefines the roles of collaboration and innovation, see how one organization built competitive differentiators by expanding upon the concept of a data analytics...

Paving the Way for a Digitally Native Healthcare Ecosystem Stephen Konya | Senior Advisor, Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) Learn about the history of health IT policy in the US, and how the national infrastructure being built today via the 21st Century Cures Act, is paving the way for a digitally native healthcare ecosystem in the years ahead.

Addressing New Challenges Created by Virtual Care Milan Shah | Chief Technology Officer, Biofourmis Virtual healthcare is positively transforming how healthcare is delivered. As a result, multiple organizations must come together to execute care delivery that’s complicated by challenges with centralized EMR systems in virtual care management. Information management, including storage, sharing, and accessibility, needs to be carefully managed and considered. Blockchain technology is a viable...

Understanding Strategic Planning to Optimize Market Success and Maintain Regulatory Compliance Charles C. Dunham, IV | Shareholder, Greenberg Traurig LLP, Houston, Texas, USACarsten Kociok | Local Partner, Greenberg Traurig Germany, LLP, Berlin, Germany The following discusses the top legal and regulatory issues affecting information governance and data privacy and security measures being implemented or expanded in the United States and European Union. This presentation provides valuable...

Rebel Patients and Caregivers Podcast – Part 1 SpeakersSusannah Fox, Author, Rebel Health: A Field Guide to the Patient-Led Revolution in Medical Care, USAMatthew Sakumoto, MD, CMIO, Sutter West Bay Region, and Assistant Clinical Professor, UCSF, USAModerator: Sarah Bell, RN, MSN, MHA, Vice President, Product and Clinical Evaluation, Biofourmis, USA  Do you or someone you know feel alone, forgotten, or lost in the shadows of suffering, whether navigating a new diagnosis, or life with a...

How Confidential Computing and Blockchain Meet the Requirements of Zero Trust Stephen Dennis | CTO, SofthreadDr. Bob Rogers | Co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer, BeeKeeperAIOver 90% of all biomedical AI research is stalled due to its inability to access real world protected health information to complete the required clinical validation and valuation prior to its deployment.  With AI forecasted to improve patient outcomes by 40% and costs by 50% the new paradigm of zero trust must be...

How Blockchain Enables a More Person-Centered Experience Gabriela Pelin | Chief Innovation Officer, Avaneer HealthMark Treshock | Executive Director, Emerging Technology, CVS HealthBob Holzer | Sr. Director Technology Exploration, Health Care Service CorporationThe discussion will cover how blockchain enables a more person-centered experience from the beginning of care through payment. With examples from real-world use cases, the discussion will explore how healthcare organizations can better...

Harmoniously Merging Physician’s Clinical Goals with the Health System’s Business Goals Adam Robison | Chief Medical Officer, AImedicaModern healthcare is quickly evolving. The advent of EHRs and digital health is putting pressure on physicians to know more and more non-clinical information. In addition to their clinical expertise physician alignment and proficiency with financial, compliance, and administrative objectives is critical for the modern healthcare systems overall success. While...

Implications of Blockchain for Society & Its Potential to Improve Healthcare Elissa Prichep | Tata Consultancy ServicesChris Moose | Healthcare Partner, Web3 & Blockchain, IBMMark Treshock | Executive Director of Emerging Technology, CVS HealthIn 2020, 55% of organizations viewed blockchain as a strategic priority. Though blockchain investments and use cases in healthcare are increasing, attention is needed on how this technology will impact patients. This panel discusses the...

Elevating Health Solutions and Services Today and in the Future with Blockchain Kyle Culver | Director, Emerging Technologies, Humana, and Co-Founder of the Synaptic AllianceThe healthcare industry is beginning to see real value created from blockchain powered solutions. This spotlights what value and impact is being created for early adopters. The speaker will share informed insights for future applications and opportunities poised for business success.

Using Remote Monitoring and AI to Enable Sustained Integrated Telehealth Telehealth has seen a rapid growth period in the last a couple of years globally, partly propelled by the pandemic. Now many patients and healthcare providers have seen the potential benefits of telehealth, many people are in the process to drive sustained growth of this new paradigm of healthcare. The panel will be focused on two key enabling factors of the future growth of integrated telehealth, i.e., remote monitoring...

Exploring the Future of Health: Leveraging Space Mr. James Hury, Deputy Director and Chief Innovation Officer for the Translational Research Institute for Space Health (TRISH) explores the future of health, and how preparing technologies to protect the health of astronauts in deep space can advance health for all humans, wherever they explore. Supported by the NASA Human Research Program (HRP), TRISH is an applied space health research catalyst that funds disruptive, high-impact scientific...

High School Health Tech Pioneer Advances Disease Detection and Patient Accessibility Say Mattapalli | Co-Founder and CEO, VytalSweta Sneha, PhD | Kennesaw University, USAStudent founders working on a start-up the past 2 years have created a 30-second home based AI brain health evaluation utilizing advanced imaging and neural analysis for non-invasive early disease detection. Personalized and tailored, this new gaze tracking system is non-invasive, has remote capabilities, and costs less -...

Why Industry-Wide Standards Matter In Fulfilling the Intent of DSCSA Christiane Wirrig, PhD | Customer Success Manager, SpherityDavid Kessler | Co-owner and President, LegisymDiscussion on the importance of standardization in order to digitalize the U.S. pharmaceutical supply chain as motivated by the Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA). Key topics What is DSCSA?What does FDA’s Stabilization Period mean?Why do technology standards matter and how are they being implemented, i.e....

EHR Systems and Blockchain: Potentials, Challenges and the Road AheadJim Poteet | Sr. Director, Revenue Cycle Development, OracleMike Gault | CEO, GuardtimeDr. Anjum Khurshid | Chief Data Scientist, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care InstituteSivagnanam Suresh | Founder, VdocDr. Alex Norta | Founder, Norta Partners OÜHorst Treiblmaier, PhD | Head of the School of International Management, Modul University Vienna // ModeratorPanelists discuss blockchain technology use for electronic health records,...