Partners in Digital Health

Heather Flannery (Moderator), ConsenSys Health, Health Circle Global Leadhttps://consensys.net/Heather Leigh Flannery is the Health Circle Global Lead at ConsenSys and the Co-Founder and Board Chair of Blockchain in Healthcare Global ("BiHG"), a new 501(c)6 trade association organized under the IEEE ISTO launching in Q4 2018. She chairs the IEEE SA P2418.6 Standards Development Working Group (blockchain in healthcare and life sciences) and serves as the FY19 Co-Chair of the global HIMSS Blockchain

How research and outcomes are linked to innovation presenting recent outcomes from a case use. Points of view from providers and innovators on patient care, science, and technology will be discussed. The ideation behind the XPRIZE and how the most successful solutions are created not from ingenuity, but from identifying legitimate market gaps are discussed.Rajiv Leventhal, (Moderator) - Healthcare Informatics, Managing EditorRajiv Leventhal is Managing Editor of Healthcare Informatics, covering

Cristina DolaniXledger Technologies, Co-Founder & COOhttps://ixledger.com/Cristina Dolan is Co-Founder and COO of iXledger an alternative marketplace for insurance based on blockchain. As a former executive at a software company that offers award winning global multi-asset institutional trading solutions in the cloud, she is applying her knowledge of traditional marketplaces to the creation of next generation blockchain enabled marketplaces in combination with advanced technologies through digital

The affirmative team provides a defense of the topic wording that can include parts or its entirety. They will offer an initial “case” in their opening presentation, rebuild it in their response by refuting the negative attacks and offer key final comparisons in their rebuttals. The negative team’s job is to disprove the affirmative thesis. Their initial presentation should poke holes in the initial affirmative presentation and outline any of their own proofs for their side. The negative response

Using Blockchain for Managing Medical Records in Difficult Environments with Paul Snow | FactomPaul Snow, Factom, CEOhttps://factom.com/Paul Snow is the founder and CEO at Factom, the creator of the first blockchain technology built from the ground up, to solve real-world business problems. Paul’s innovative approach to software and application engineering has spawned a litany of inventive open-source companies and solutions that have paved the way for Factom. A true open-source evangelist, Paul

Blockchain Policy Debate Resolve: Blockchain is Essential to Next Generation Healthcare Practice and SystemsWilliam Baker | New York University, Director, Global Debate FundBrian Behlendorf | Hyperledger, Executive DirectorJohn D. Halamka | Beth Israel Deaconess System, New England Healthcare Exchange Network (NEHEN), Co-Chair, HIT Standards Committee, Professor, Harvard Medical SchoolTim Ken Mackey | UC San Diego, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Global Public HealthAmanda Stanhaus |