CDHLS Coalition

Our Mission

The Coalition for Decentralized Healthcare and Life Sciences (CDHLS) unites stakeholders across the healthcare, technology, academic, and regulatory sectors to elevate understanding decentralized technology and applications that are driving transformative solutions that create safe, secure, and cost effective care. Our goal is to develop frameworks, promote data security and privacy, and champion the responsible use of technology—including decentralized AI and blockchain—to drive innovations that empower patients, streamline data access, and enhance global collaboration. We believe technology that is understood by leaders and users, current and future, will unlock true value and transformation the market both desires and requires.  

Key Focus Areas

  1. Decentralized Platforms and Blockchain Innovation - Leveraging the strengths of blockchain platform and service providers, CDHLS is creating a network to support decentralized healthcare infrastructure through a network of resources that brings decentralized care to underserved regions and empowers patients everywhere. With our coalition's efforts, we strive to build an ecosystem that prioritizes patient welfare, accelerates medical advancements, and redefines healthcare safety and security
  2. Digital Asset Integration and Data Ownership - CDHLS advocates for patient data sovereignty and the integration of digital assets at scale. Our partnerships will enhance the sector’s knowledge base for standards yo secure efficient health data transfer, storage, and patient ownership; ensuring individuals control their medical records and share data seamlessly across platforms. His includes AI and Machine Learning. CDHLS is dedicated to ensuring AI applications adhere to high standards of transparency, safety, and equity, benefiting consumers, clinicians, and corporations alike. Our initiatives promote mainstream adoption technical guidelines and consumer advocacy group protections.
  3. Decentralized Patient Care and Health Equity - CDHLS is committed to reducing disparities in access to healthcare by fostering decentralized care solutions. We focus on bringing healthcare directly to patients, wherever they are, through innovations like telemedicine, blockchain-based medical records, and mobile health solutions.
  4. Empowering Data Ownership and Privacy - At CDHLS, we advocate for patient sovereignty over their health data. Through decentralized technologies, we enable individuals to own and control their medical records, ensuring privacy, security, and ease of sharing data across care providers without compromising personal security.
  5. Research and Innovation in Decentralized Life Sciences - We support groundbreaking research in decentralized clinical trials, drug discovery, and bioinformatics, promoting agile, patient-centric approaches that accelerate advancements in medicine and improve healthcare outcomes.
  6. Policy and Advocacy for Decentralized Standards - To ensure the future of decentralized healthcare and life sciences, CDHLS collaborates with policymakers to shape guidelines that prioritize patient welfare and foster innovation. We advocate for regulatory frameworks that support cross-jurisdictional healthcare solutions and encourage global standards for decentralized health systems.
  7. Enterprise Blockchain and Subnet Architecture - CDHLS will advance enterprise blockchain solutions that enhance healthcare and life sciences. Our focus includes developing subnet architectures and assessment guides for digital assets, supporting scalability and resilience. We work with global leaders and regulators to ensure the technology aligns with consumer needs and industry standards.

Programs and Initiatives

  • Global Health Innovation Partnerships: In collaboration with world-renowned institutions, healthcare providers, researchers, tech innovators, and policymakers, we bring together to create cross-sector partnerships that accelerate decentralized healthcare solutions worldwide.
  • Decentralized Clinical Trial Network: Together with biopharma, industry leaders, innovators, and academic institutions, we support decentralized clinical trials to make drug development more inclusive and consumer centric, creating models where patients, pharma, and corporations benefit equitably. We support a decentralized clinical trial framework that enhances trial accessibility and diversity, ultimately leading to faster, more inclusive medical advancements.
  • Patient Data Empowerment Alliance: Through this initiative, we work to educate and empower individuals on the importance of data ownership and the practical use of decentralized health technologies.
  • Capacity Building in AI and Decentralized Tech: CDHLS works with top universities and prominent voices to educate and build AI and blockchain knowledge across healthcare systems, enhancing the expertise of clinicians and researchers through trusted educational programs and discussions and tutorials for consumer and clinician empowerment:

Get Involved

We invite innovators, advocates, enterprises, and institutions to join our coalition and contribute to shaping the future of healthcare. Your expertise and involvement can help advance technology-driven, equitable healthcare that meets the needs of patients and professionals alike. Together, we can create a healthcare ecosystem that is accessible, equitable, and resilient for all.

Purpose for the Coalition for Decentralized Healthcare and Life Sciences

The Coalition for Decentralized Healthcare and Life Sciences (CDHLS) is dedicated to transforming healthcare and life sciences through the power of decentralized technologies such as blockchain, digital assets, and decentralized science (DeSci). Our mission is to create a secure, patient-centered, and globally accessible healthcare ecosystem where technology drives equity, safety, security, and innovative care solutions.

CDHLS brings together experts from academia, healthcare, technology, policy, and consumer advocacy to develop frameworks, best practices, and partnerships that:

  • Empower Patient Data Ownership and Control: We prioritize privacy and security, enabling patients to own and manage their health data seamlessly across platforms.
  • Advance the Understanding and Pragmatic Use of Digital Assets: Through educational resources, assessment guides, and practical toolkits, we help stakeholders understand the role and benefits of digital assets in healthcare, offering clear, accessible pathways for adopting these innovations.
  • Demystify Blockchain Technology: We simplify complex blockchain concepts, making them accessible to consumers, clinicians, and healthcare enterprises. By fostering transparency and knowledge-sharing, we enable informed decision-making around blockchain adoption in health.
  • Promote Decentralized Science (DeSci): CDHLS supports decentralized scientific research models that empower scientists, promote collaborative research, and accelerate discovery in life sciences. DeSci initiatives within CDHLS emphasize open-access knowledge, patient-centric approaches, and global collaboration.
  • Drive Responsible AI and Blockchain in Healthcare: Through guidelines and best practices, we champion safe and ethical AI and blockchain use that prioritizes patient safety, transparency, and equity, making advanced technologies more approachable and actionable.
  • Facilitate Decentralized Clinical Trials and Research: CDHLS fosters decentralized research models that expand patient access to clinical trials and streamline innovation, creating a collaborative environment where both consumers and corporations thrive.

Through partnerships, innovative programs, and support for global regulations, CDHLS is committed to fostering a resilient, affordable, and accessible healthcare future where decentralized technologies bridge the gap between consumer needs and industry growth.

CDHLS Goal: Decentralized Technology that is Understood and Serves Everyone

To educate and promote pragmatic use for decentralized technology in healthcare, ensuring trustworthy applications that benefit all communities and support safe, secure, and accessible applications. Our Approach Includes:

  • Building Trust in Decentralized Solutions: Ensuring decentralized healthcare tools and technologies are widely accepted by patients, clinicians, and organizations. We focus on clarity of processes to foster trust in the security and usability of these innovations.
  • Inclusive Representation: Engaging a diverse range of stakeholders to ensure that decentralized healthcare solutions are developed and validated in various environments and data sets, reflecting the full diversity of healthcare needs.
  • Public-Private Collaboration: Partnering with public and private entities to combine strengths, resources, and insights, creating robust standards, knowledge, and tools for decentralized healthcare that meet both regulatory requirements and practical needs.
  • Technology Use: Addressing concerns around the “black box” nature of blockchain and AI benefits by educating how decentralized solutions are developed, implemented, and applied for mainstream adoption, public and private security and interoperability.
  • Supporting Innovation Responsibly: Balance the need for decentralized technology with the need to foster innovation, creating consensus driven standards to encourage secure implementations and use of blockchain, digital assets, and decentralized AI in healthcare.

CDHLS Deliverables

The Coalition for Decentralized Healthcare and Life Sciences (CDHLS) is dedicated to creating a federated network of validation labs and a comprehensive framework accessible to all healthcare providers—including those in under-resourced settings—to validate decentralized models and ensure they benefit all patient populations. We aim to achieve this by:

  • Blockchain Assurance Assessment: Establishing and certifying a network of quality assurance labs to evaluate and validate decentralized healthcare technologies based on industry standards and best practices for security, reliability, and equity. Continuous Evaluation and Monitoring of tools and frameworks for ongoing testing and monitoring of decentralized models, ensuring they remain safe, unbiased, and effective over time.
  • Best Practice Guidance: Creating best practice guidelines in collaboration with industry experts to support the development and deployment of decentralized health technologies, with demonstrated use cases across blockchain, digital assets, AI, ad more.
  • Public Registry for Transparency: Publishing report cards available to the public to enhance transparency, allowing patients, clinicians, and organizations to understand the performance, impact of decentralized solutions in healthcare.

CDHLS is committed to fostering a future where decentralized technologies are understood, safe, secure, and beneficial for all global health citizens and health providers and systems everyone.

Performance Evaluation

At the Coalition for Decentralized Healthcare and Life Sciences (CDHLS), we believe performance should be evaluated based on real-world benefits to patient care, health systems, utility and cost efficiency for the best trusted health outcomes.

Effective deployment of decentralized tools in healthcare requires consideration of factors, including clinician knowledge, electronic health record (EHR) compatibility, and digital and financial literacy. To fully assess the utility of these tools, it is essential to measure the costs and benefits of their use, balancing actions with use and impact in healthcare and life sciences.

Decentralized Technology Maturity Model

To address these needs, CDHLS is supporting the Global Blockchain Association (GBA) Blockchain Maturity Assessment Model (BMM) - a rigorous, practical framework for evaluating decentralized healthcare products, services, and companies. Importantly, this model meets high standards of reliability and impartiality for private-sector technology vendors.

A “Decentralized Reliability Update” issued by CDHLS will serve as an independent validation of claims for trusted applications, fostering trust between users and vendors. These Updates will provide accessible information to the community, end users, and patients, helping to build trust, accountability, and informed decision-making.

Leadership

Founders

  • Tory Cenaj, CEO and Publisher, Blockchain in Healthcare Today Platform Approaches Journal, Partners in Digital Health
  • Gerard Dache, Found Global Blockchain Association (GBA)
  • Gianluca De Novi, PhD, ​CEO, Circular Protocol and Director of the Medical Device and Simulation Laboratory​, Massachusetts General Hospital
  • Nitin Gaur, Founder & CTO Founder & CTO, LedgerLink.ai 
  • Jim Nasr, CEO, Acoer
  • David Stefanich, Founder & CEO, Rymedi

Partners

  • To be announced.

All CDHLS member organizations enjoy the following exclusive benefits:

  • Active Participation in Standards Development: Members have guaranteed opportunities to contribute to the development of CDHLS best practice frameworks and help shape our strategic direction for decentralized healthcare and life sciences.
  • Licensing for Commercial Use and Derivative Works: Members receive licenses to commercialize and create derivative works based on CDHLS work products. While all frameworks will be open-source and publicly available under the Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license, only members have permission for commercial use and public derivatives.
  • Priority in Speaking and Event Participation: Members receive priority consideration for speaking engagements and participation in coalition-led events, providing valuable visibility and influence in the decentralized healthcare landscape.
  • Networking with Industry Experts: Members gain access to networking opportunities with thought leaders, industry experts, and like-minded professionals through exclusive online forums and in-person gatherings.
  • Discounted Registration and Sponsorship Opportunities: Members receive priority registration rates for our annual CDHLS Summit and unique sponsorship opportunities in partnership with CDHLS and our affiliated events.
  • Enhanced Visibility and Recognition: Members are featured on our website and are acknowledged for their contributions to CDHLS initiatives and projects, enhancing their visibility within the industry.

Marketing, Communications & Resource Library

Meetings and Events: Connect with experts in blockchain, AI, and healthcare through regular events, media, and forums, including sessions at global conferences and media coverage.

Technical Resources: Access white papers, sponsored content, and regulatory guidelines designed to advance industry knowledge on decentralized systems, digital asset applications, and decentralized AI.

Assessment Models, Guides, and Toolkits: CDHLS offers practical guides to support healthcare systems, providers, and biopharma in testing and evaluating AI and blockchain technologies, ensuring that every innovation is built with a patient-centric approach a can be trusted.

 Education services and resources Include:

  • Audiovisual Presentations
  • Content Development
  • Targeted Communications and Direct Mail Programs
  • Special Event Planning (Guidelines Summit, Symposia, Advisory boards, Roundtables, Expert Forums, Focus Groups, Meetups, etc.)
  • Speakers Bureau, Thought Leader/Key-Opinion-Leader Access
  • Produce Training Materials & Product Information Kits
  • Strategic Research and Insights
  • Assessment Guides
  • Blockchain in Healthcare Today Platform Approaches Journal
  • Newsletter
  • White Papers
  • Debates 
  • Hackathons

Cost

Join CDHLS to gain these exclusive benefits and collaborate on shaping the future of decentralized healthcare and life sciences. Use your social capital to collectively demonstrate:

  • How Technology Makes Healthcare More Affordable 
  • Communicate the Value of
    • Enterprise Blockchain and Subnet Architecture
    • Use of Digital Assets and Monetization Frameworks At Scale
    • Decentralized AI Market Impact
    • Regulation and Governance
  • Increase Mainstream Use And Knowledge Capacity Across Healthcare And Life Sciences
  • Build Capacity In Healthcare And Across Global Health Citizen Consumer Network
  • Provide Guidance for Regulation & Policy
  • Provide Consumers And Clinicians Holistic Understanding of Emerging Technology

Non-Profit Small: <$100M total operating revenue OR <100 beds - $5,000.00 USD
Non-Profit Medium: $100M - 4.9B total operating revenue OR 100-1000 beds - $25,000.00  USD

Non-Profit Large: > $5B total operating revenue OR >1000 beds - 50,000.00 USD

 

For-Profit Small: <$10M in revenue - 5,000.00 USD
For-Profit Medium: $10-250M in revenue - 25,000.00 USD
For-Profit Large: $250M-$1B total operating revenue - 50,000.00 USD
For-Profit Enterprise: > $1B total operating revenue - 100,000.00 USD

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