Blockchain in Health Insurance: More Accuracy, More Transparency and More Efficiency

How blockchain will make health insurance cheaper and more efficient. The evolving relationship between blockchain tech and the health sector has already been thoroughly documented, yet something that’s received less attention is the increasing role blockchains are set to have in the health insurance industry. This industry was worth over $600 billion in 2017 in the […]

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Newly Formed US Healthcare Alliance to Trial Blockchain for Improved Data Quality

Seven major healthcare companies from the U.S. have established an alliance to trial blockchain solutions. Major U.S. healthcare companies have formed an alliance to trial blockchain solutions in order to improve data quality and reduce costs, U.S. weekly news outlet Modern Healthcare reports Monday, Dec. 3. The Synaptic Health Alliance group consists of Humana, Multiplan, […]

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UnitedHealth Group, Quest Diagnostics, Humana & MultiPlan Partner on Blockchain Health Care Data Project

Health care insurers UnitedHealth Group, Humana and MultiPlan have partnered with provider Quest Diagnostics in a study on utilizing blockchain technology to improve health care data. They are not the first companies to look at marrying healthcare with the blockchain. Medicalchain is one health records company looking to solve this problem, which currently has voluntary […]

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