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One question everyone in healthcare should ask is: do new innovations address the challenges that are bound to turn into critical issues for EHR? This article explains why blockchain healthcare applications might be the best answer and introduces you to four blockchain in healthcare examples.

Transitioning to Electronic Health Records (EHR) has revealed as many challenges as it solves. This raises the question: Do we really have to? If yes, what is the right technology and does blockchain deserve a seat at the health care data table?

Escalating drug prices can turn a financial burden into a matter of life and death. In response, Dr. Gennaro D’Urso and his community are creating a Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) as a catalyst for affordable drug development and production. And in the process, they are building a business protocol that every NGO should know about.

Counterfeit drugs disrupt the pharma industry - and not in a good way. The biggest challenge in combating the trend is traceability of drugs through the pharmaceutical supply chain. Remedy could come from an unconventional technology: Blockchain Pharmacy.

It took a global pandemic to draw attention to the sorry state of healthcare. Till then it seemed convenient to sweep the potentially fatal impact of outdated, overloaded, and slowly decaying medical systems under the rug. An annoying little virus stubbornly challenged our health and the infrastructure of healthcare. Now all eyes are on innovative technological solutions with blockchain right in the center.