Blockchain for Health: 101 Primer for Students

Jim Nasr is the CEO of Acoer—at technology firm focused on building usable, open, blockchain-enabled software for healthcare—and the acting CTO at Safe Health Systems, a digital health platform provider. Prior to his current roles, Jim was Chief Software Architect at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)—leading the modernization of the agency’s scientific applications, culminating in the development of OpenCDC. Jim has more than twenty years of experience in the technology industry, with over a decade as a founder profitably growing the technology firm Armedia LLC from inception to over 100 employees, and a 5-time Inc. 5000 awardee. Jim has co-authored several technology books, guest lectured for a number of universities, co-developed a semester long course on Token Economics for the University of Georgia, and spoken globally at numerous industry events, including many on modern software development practices and blockchain technologies. Jim is a Workgroup Lead for the IEEE Decentralized Clinical Trials standards body, Architecture Lead for PhUSE Blockchain Working Group, a Technical Fellow at pioneering digital identity organization EP3 Foundation and on advisory for a number of technology startups. He has an MBA from the University of Connecticut, a BS in Computer Science and Statistics from Coventry University and resides in Atlanta, GA.