Blockchain in Healthcare Webinar: Health Data Interoperability and DLT Impact

I'm pleased to announce our three panelists for our 2/20 webinar: Ron Ribitzky, MD, Founder and CEO of R&D Ribitzky, a consulting firm focused on health IT, life sciences informatics, and precision medicine; Jim Nasr, VP Technology & Innovation at Synchrogenix, a Certara Company, recently Entrepreneur in Residence of the CDC; and Geoffry Roberts, a senior health data architect and software engineer involved with HL7 since 2001. Dr. Ribitzky and Jim are also collaborators within the Blockchain Work Group at HIMSS. Please join us for this highly engaging two-hour live event beginning with 30 minutes of presentations (10 minutes from each panelist), followed by a 45 minute moderated panel discussion, closing with 45 minutes of facilitated audience Q&A and discussion. This no-cost, high-quality Blockchain in Healthcare webinar series is produced by Obesity PPM (ObesityPPM.com) and delivered in partnership with the Healthcare Conference Network (HCN). HCN produces a Blockchain in Healthcare conference series -- see https://healthcareconferencenetwork.com/ to register for these immersive, specialized conferences. The next in-person conference takes place 2/27 in San Francisco; for more information and to register, visit: https://www.blockchainhealthcare-west.com/.

Obesity PPM also organizes in-person working sessions in Tysons Corner, Virginia (DC suburbs) through Meetup.com. Please visit http://meetu.ps/c/3xtnv/1FxDQ/f if you'd like to join the Meetups; the webinars are open to all. NOTE: registration is only required once for the webinar series; it is not necessary to separately register for each event.
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This group organizes focused innovation sessions on the broad array of blockchain use cases in healthcare. Our goal is to function like a decentralized, unsponsored incubator for those serious about engaging in DLT early adoption. Together, we can move the needle on big problems within the vast global healthcare ecosystem.

We alternate between virtual Meetups and in-person sessions in Tysons Corner, Virginia (DC suburbs) -- so if you're not local to the DC area, you'll still be able to participate in every other session.

Emphasis is on identifying and activating multidisciplinary teams who want to roll up their sleeves and manifest particularly great ideas, including potentially forming new ventures, alliances, and rapidly executable strategies. We're interested in both public and private-permissioned blockchain scenarios, public and private sector health, and public-private partnerships.

Paradigm-shifting intersections of DL tech and artificial intelligence, genomics, fintech, all areas of health IT, compliance, identity and privacy, cybersecurity, alternative payment models, PCOR, HEOR, population health, disease management, will be explored. As the group's innovations gain momentum, we will bring funding sources to the table and load balance the critique and refinement of health-focused business and ICO/TGE concepts among the group.

This group is enthusiastically open to all blockchain technologists and strategists. Critically, we also need deep subject matter experts from all areas of healthcare (business and clinical) interested in contributing their knowledge and participating in groundbreaking solution offerings. In addition to software engineers and other technologists, we need clinicians and researchers of all sorts, legal and policy experts, economists, health administrators and leaders from all areas, and so on.

The key is not simply coalescing technical expertise -- it's bringing together interdisciplinary teams that when combined, can move the world.

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." Margaret Meede