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"Cahana broke down the possibilities presented by distributed ledger technology. "Blockchain offers an operational environment that allows us to analyze data at its source. We don't need to create these huge data banks that can be hacked and manipulated. We don't need to bring the data to the algorithm, the algorithm can go to the data. It is called federated learning which is like machine learning together with privacy-preserving technologies," said Cahana. "The idea of introducing a whole token economy into healthcare is to transform people from health service consumers to health and wealth producers. As opposed to artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, genomics, telemedicine, and all these things that are innovative and are general-purpose technologies that make things faster, better and cheaper, blockchain really is disruptive in the business model. It really transforms digital healthcare from patient-centric to patient-driven. People can drive their own health similar to how they invest in their wealth.""

By Alex Cahana 1. Why isn't there a doctor in the house? First reason: MD's hate HIT (health information technology) 2. Most MD's have no idea what Blockchain does, let alone what it IS

Cahana: I will be moderating two one-hour panels on the use of #Blockchain in #Healthcare and #LifeSciences in our #covidー19 world. Specifically you will learn from our experts: Heather Leigh Flannery, Bernhard Salb, Synho Do and Ahmed Abdulla the latest about current solutions in data privacy, security, sovereignty as well as how to #incentivize data sharing to combat the global challenges we are facing. Many thanks to Caroline Dennis for her impeccable organization and the Boston Blockchain Association (BBA) Association for supporting this event.

Excellent and recent overview of Digital Health, blockchain, and the global view of Dr. Cahana.

This is the site for the symposium where Dr. Cahana is speaking. Conference is set in Dubai.

Dr. Cahana mentioned he is speaking tomorrow morning at The Virtual Blockchain in Healthcare Symposium #VBIHS2021   This link is a 9-hour feed from day one.  Lots to skim through. I suspect there is some great information to be 'mined' from all this. 

"It is therefore imperative to invest in decentralized and privacy preserving technologies, like blockchain, verifiable computing and federated learning to create cyber-resilient systems. We need to invest in providing self-sovereign digital identities (DID) to all (SDG 16.9), because without an identity we are invisible. We are unable to access healthcare, vote, open a bank account, get employment and at risk for exploitation and trafficking. Owning our digital identity provides accurate population data, while governments and organizations can monitor key demographics, public health indicators and deliver basic human services and socio-economic planning without the risk of surveillance and exclusion."

"I propose that beyond investor lack of awareness, hesitancy and risk aversiveness, blockchain-based solutions introduce an existential threat to the business of healthcare and therefore detract investment. Blockchain does not just dis-intermediate heavily-invested and powerful third parties in healthcare, like pharmacy benefit managers, group purchasing organizations, and third party administrators; blockchain changes the economic power balance that drives the current status quo, which represents nearly 20% of the US GDP."

Latest from Alex Cahana on the health ecosystem we are intent on distrupting.

Folks, this recent piece on Medium will help us all get a sense of the big vision driving Dr. Cahana's passions. "UHI Universal Health Income, on the other hand is designed to encourage healthy behaviors (such as vaccinations, prenatal care, periodic or annual check ups) and discourage risky behaviors (like smoking, addiction, not adhering to treatment or in the case of COVID- avoiding social distancing)."

And although waves of COVID are still occurring, Africa is moving towards a digital, science-centric, inter-dependent post-pandemic reality that requires robust investment in technology, and as I will explain later, specifically in decentralized, distributed, open- and crowd-sourced solutions.

"Holo is to cloud hosting what Airbnb was to hotels-anyone can become a host by turning their computer into a source of revenue, getting paid in HoloFuel for hosting peer-to-peer applications. By hosting P2P apps, you support a web that empowers your peers and communities. "

In 2017 Kabir introduced Holo and Holochain to Mike and Me. We all have Holoports. The Holochain should launch in BETA this year. The promise has always been data ownership, secured with blockchain level description. This technology could help us change the world. Help spread the word!