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Academic-Industry Stakeholder Closing Workshop Report

Workshop Proceedings The Wellcome Trust Blockchain for Healthcare academic-industry stakeholder closing workshop was held on 28 November 2019 at the University of Birmingham. The workshop brought together a select group of key individuals involved in building blockchain applications for healthcare from the UK and USA, together with leading academics and from several disciplines including law, … Continue reading “Academic-Industry Stakeholder Closing Workshop Report”

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GovChain: exploring the current state of public sector blockchain implementation

By Helen Disney – CEO and Founder of Unblocked, cofounder of GovChain and founding board member of the British Blockchain and Frontier Technologies Association (BBFTA) 15 November 2019 What is the current state of implementation of blockchain by public sector bodies around the world? Over the past year a project known as GovChain has attempted … Continue reading “GovChain: exploring the current state of public sector blockchain implementation”

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Implementing Blockchains in the Public Sector – Legal Perspective

By Katarzyna Ziółkowska, PhD candidate at the University of Warsaw, visiting research student at the University of Birmingham, member of the Centre for Research on Legal Aspects of the Blockchain Technology at the University of Warsaw 15 August 2019 The emergence and further rapid development of distributed ledger technologies have made the administration face unprecedented … Continue reading “Implementing Blockchains in the Public Sector – Legal Perspective”

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Understanding the value of ‘long’ data (Part 2)

This is a three part series about long data. Part I focuses on the definition, quality and value. Part II explores the promises of blockchain to deliver data integrity for long data. Finally, Part III outlines the potential obstacles to guaranteeing data integrity for long data even supported by technologies such as blockchain. We define … Continue reading “Understanding the value of ‘long’ data (Part 2)”

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Blockchain in Healthcare – Clinicians Reflect on Current Needs in the Health Data Ecosystem

By Xiaoxuan Liu, medical doctor and a PhD student in ophthalmology at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust and; Professor Alastair Denniston, Consultant Ophthalmologist (Uveitis and Medical Retina), University Hospitals Birmingham NHSFT & Hon Professor, University of Birmingham, UK   In today’s world, healthcare data is being generated and stored in vast quantities. The digitisation … Continue reading “Blockchain in Healthcare – Clinicians Reflect on Current Needs in the Health Data Ecosystem”

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Waking up to Exciting Opportunities: Insights from Healthcare Unblocked 2018

By Helen Disney – CEO and Founder of Unblocked and founding board member of the British Blockchain Industry Association. 4 January 2019 Blockchain in healthcare is a growing field but at the same time it remains a small subset of the overall blockchain landscape as measured by investment. To take one metric, research by CryptoOracle … Continue reading “Waking up to Exciting Opportunities: Insights from Healthcare Unblocked 2018”

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Blockchain for Healthcare: Initial Thoughts and Emerging Issues

By Immaculate Motsi-Omoijiade, Research Associate – Blockchain for Healthcare 23 November 2018 Background A blockchain is a cryptographic protocol that allows a network of computers to collectively maintain a shared ledger of information without the need for verification by a trusted third party. This information is stored in a chronological, cryptographically secured ‘chain’ of data … Continue reading “Blockchain for Healthcare: Initial Thoughts and Emerging Issues”

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