HealthcareCISO

Blockchain technology has started getting attention by health IT leaders and holds much promise.

"While blockchain technology is not a panacea for data standardization or system integration challenges, it does offer a promising new distributed framework to amplify and support integration of healthcare information across a range of uses and stakeholders," consulting firm Deloitte explained. "It addresses several existing pain points and enables a system that is more efficient, disintermediated and secure."

In January, healthcare blockchain technology and services company Avaneer Health announced...