©  Vikram Dhillon, David Metcalf, and Max Hooper 2017

Vikram Dhillon, David Metcalf and Max Hooper, Blockchain Enabled Applications, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3081-7_9

9. Blockchain in Health Care

Vikram Dhillon, David Metcalf1 and Max Hooper1

(1)Orlando, Florida, USA

The health care sector is a $3 trillion industry, and about $1 trillion of it goes to waste annually. Care coordination is becoming more complex as chronic conditions in the aging population continue to rise. In many instances, the technology available to health care providers is not adequate enough to capture all aspects of the care being provided. The result is a rugged transfer of information between parties that ultimately reduces the quality of care being provided to ...

Get Blockchain Enabled Applications: Understand the Blockchain Ecosystem and How to Make it Work for You now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.