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Innovations on the Front Lines, Advances in Point of Care Technologies for Rural Settings

Will be speaking at Health 2.0 India Conference 2017 at Hyderabad on 10th Nov. https://lnkd.in/fKSfY7A #healthcare Health 2.0 Innovations on the Front Lines, Advances in Point of Care Technologies for Rural Settings 12:00pm - 1:00pm Nov 10th 2017 Affordable point of care technologies are an integral part of an effective healthcare system, but continue to be a critical unmet need for billions of rural consumers in emerging markets like India. The role and impact of point of care technologies will be transformational over the next 10 years. This panel is designed for physicians, clinicians, hospital administrators, technologists and all healthcare and medical professionals who must learn about cutting-edge technology and how it will improving the business and service of patients.

Blockchain, Predictive Analytics and Healthcare

Episode-of-care payment and comprehensive care payment systems can help providers prevent health problems; avoid the occurrence of acute episodes among individuals who have health conditions; prevent poor outcomes during major acute episodes, such as infections, complications, and hospital readmissions; and reduce the costs of successful treatment. Using cryptography to keep exchanges secure, blockchain provides a decentralised database, or “digital ledger”, of transactions that everyone on the network can see. This network is essentially a chain of computers that must all approve an exchange before it can be verified and recorded. Learn more about the use of Blockchain in healthcare here: Blockchain, Predictive Analytics and Healthcare from Dr. Ruchi Dass It is distributed. Means it is de- centralised. Nobody is an owner. It is public. Everyone can see it. Things that have happened are time stamped, recorded and coded. It is persistent. As far as everyone is pa...