BHTY Around the Globe
Work stream
Work Stream Leader: Jim Nasr, CEO, Acoer
This work stream is dedicated to highlighting, analyzing, and distilling key learnings from real-world implementations of decentralized health solutions. With a strong emphasis on practical application and measurable impact, it seeks to showcase innovations that are actively transforming healthcare, enhancing data integrity, improving patient outcomes, and driving efficiency through decentralization.
Scope & Focus Areas
The work stream covers a broad spectrum of decentralized technologies that are shaping the future of healthcare and life sciences, including:
- Data sovereignty & interoperability – Enabling secure and user-controlled health data sharing.
- Privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs) – Leveraging encryption, zero-knowledge proofs, and confidential computing for secure data utilization.
- Blockchain & tokenization – Establishing transparent, immutable records for patient data, payments, and incentivization models.
- AI integration – Ensuring verifiable and bias-free AI models through decentralized data governance.
- Proven, real-life implementations – Case studies that have demonstrated tangible results in real-world settings.
Measuring Success
A primary metric for the success of this work stream is public provability—demonstrated through real-world adoption, verifiable impact, and testimonials from end-users. Each solution profiled must showcase measurable user engagement, operational success, and market adoption as key indicators of effectiveness.
Dissemination & Thought Leadership
Insights from this work stream will be shared through an array of media formats and industry platforms, ensuring broad accessibility and engagement, including:
- Podcasts featuring industry leaders and innovators.
- Blog posts exploring real-world case studies and technical insights.
- Paper(s) submitted to peer-reviewed journal to contribute to the body of knowledge in decentralized health.
- Conference presentations & speaking engagements to showcase results to industry professionals and stakeholders.
Examples of Real-World Decentralized Health Implementations
The following are proven, in-market decentralized health solutions demonstrating tangible impact:
- Health Data Explorer by Acoer – Utilizes decentralized data technologies including Hedera, to ensure data verification and AI training lineage, addressing critical public health reporting challenges, particularly in opioid substance abuse monitoring.
- XRPH Prescription Savings Card by XRP Healthcare – A blockchain-based solution leveraging XRP tokenization to provide traceable, cost-saving prescription access for consumers, while incentivizing adoption and improving payment transparency in pharmacies.
- More use cases to be added...
This work stream aims to drive awareness, collaboration, and adoption of decentralized health innovations by shining a spotlight on solutions that are already making a difference.
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