Health Unchained Podcast

Ted Tanner Jr., CTO of Watson Health. Ted was previously the CTO of PokitDok (a major healthcare company which leveraged APIs and the DokChain blockchain platform). PokitDok was acquired by Change Healthcare in 2018. Ted is an engineering executive with extensive experience ranging from startups to public corporations. Focused mainly on growth scale computing he has held architect positions at both Apple and Microsoft and has held instrumental roles in several start-ups, including digidesign (IPO and acquired by Avid), Crystal River Engineering (acquired by Creative Labs), and more. He is on the IAB for the University of South Carolina Computer Science Department as well as the Center for Intelligent Systems and Machine Learning at the University of Tennessee.

Ted's website: https://www.tedtanner.org/

IBM Watson Health website: https://www.ibm.com/watson-health

Twitter: https://twitter.com/tctjr

Topics Overview

•Introduction of Ted's background

•Journey into healthcare and technology

•Experience starting PokitDok and selling to Change Healthcare

•When did you first learn about blockchain?

•How is blockchain adoption and awareness in healthcare developing globally and domestically?

•Web3

•Are you concerned about the impact of quantum computing on the world's data security systems, especially blockchains?

•Is the future of AI/ML/FL dependent on a secure blockchain network?

•What excites you most about IBM Watson Health?

•What is LinuxforHealth? Why is it important?

•Regulation of technology

•Young people and technology addiction

•What advice can you share with young technology entrepreneurs who are looking to reshape the healthcare system?

•Philosophical/Personal

•What do you believe in that most people would disagree with?

•(Not to get political) how can technology be used to address drug taboos in our society?

•If it’s not too personal, what would you consider to be your biggest mistake?

•Favorite book that has influenced you - How to Read a Book by Mortimer J. Adler

•What are your thoughts about the singularity that is supposed to happen in 2045?

•If you had to have micro chip implanted in your body, where would you want it to be implanted?

•Key Takeaways

News Corner

On May 20, 2021, The Chopra Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to improving health and well-being, announced the availability of their new, free, Never Alone mobile application, which offers individuals the ability to connect, 24/7, with curated volunteers, counselors, mental health experts/professional, local organizations, and hospitals based on their location. The app is a collaboration with CG Creative Studios and leverages the Hedera network which is a decentralized ledger technology that uses acyclic graphs to create an asynchronous Byzantine Fault-Tolerant consensus algorithm. The hashgraph technology is currently patented, and the only authorized ledger is Hedera Hashgraph. The native cryptocurrency of the Hedera Hashgraph system is HBAR.

The app allows mental health and wellness experts, from medical professionals to meditation experts, to upload content into a service registry, where it is logged on the Hedera Consensus Service and given a digital fingerprint, providing a guarantee of where that content resides and making it completely tamperproof. Users gain easy access by simply logging into the platform to view trustworthy content that they know has not been altered or falsified.

The goal of the initiative is to address the roots of human stress and suffering, advance innovation based on scientific research, and democratize access to wellness resources and everyday tools for those in need.

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/chopra-foundation-launches-never-alone-app-powered-by-hedera-to-support-mental-and-emotional-well-being-301296334.html

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Brian Behlendorf is the Executive Director of the Hyperledger project hosted by the Linux Foundation. He’s written and spoken extensively on open-source software development and communities. In 1999, he co-founded the Apache Software foundation, a non-profit that supports several open source project around key internet technologies. Brian has served on the board of the Mozilla foundation since 2003 and was CTO at the World economic forum. Hyperledger was started in 2015 by the Linux Foundation and hosts some of the most popular enterprise-grade distributed ledger platforms like Hyperledger Fabric, Besu, Indy, and Sawtooth.

Brian's Twitter: https://twitter.com/brianbehlendorf

Brian's Wikipedia page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Behlendorf

Hyperledger Website: https://www.hyperledger.org/use

Show Notes

•Brian's background

•When did you first learn about blockchain?

•How do you compare the current blockchain revolution to the internet revolution of the 90s?

•Linux Foundation involvement in healthcare

•Launching Hyperledger

•What excites you most about the Hyperledger network and its community?

•Does the lack of a native cryptocurrency mean there's less incentivize for Hyperledger developers compared to other smart contract DLTs like Ethereum? Or is it a scaling advantage for Hyperledger?

•How close are we to a global self-sovereign identity solution? Indy project

•Future of identity

•Selective disclosure

•BBS+ signatures,

•Can we expect real privacy and protection from government surveillance in the future?

•WHO Vaccine cards historical insight

•Public vs. Private DLT - how to choose the right level of openness for business applications?

•How important is community and stakeholder governance when developing a DLT solutions?

Philosophical/Personal

•What do you believe in that most people would disagree with?

•(Not to get political) how can technology be used to address drug taboos in our society?

•In your view, what would it take for Bitcoin to lose it's #1 place in total network value (in USD)?

•Will you be attending Burning Man this year?

•Favorite book that has influenced you – The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes

•If you had to have micro chip implanted in your body, where would you want it to be implanted?

•DAW (digital audio workstation) of choice – MIXX, OBS, Twitch

•Is it fair to have an open network where people can join with equal voting rights without any previous investment or effort into a project?

•Key Takeaways

News Corner

https://www.coindesk.com/microsoft-azure-service-blockchain-close

Microsoft has decided to terminate its Azure-based blockchain-as-a-service platform.

According to a recent blog post, Microsoft announced, they have been quietly informing customers on the best way to migrate their data to an alternative of their choosing by Sept. 10. Support for new deployments or member creations has also been discontinued.

No official reason for their decision has been shared by the company.

In late January 2016, Microsoft offered Azure's DevTest Labs so that Blockchain-related services and partners can decouple the Blockchain technology from virtual machines.

Microsoft's short-term goal for the Azure BaaS was to make available a certified blockchain marketplace.

The recommended migration destination is ConsenSys Quorum Blockchain Service. Users also could opt to self-manage their blockchains using Virtual Machines.

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Mathieu Galtier, PhD – Neuroscience and computer science (applied mathematics) background. Chief Product Officer of Owkin which was founded in 2016 and has quickly emerged as a leader in bringing AI and ML technologies to the healthcare industry. We’ll be talking about how blockchain technology and federated learning systems are creating amazing new opportunities in medical research and development.

LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/mgaltier/

Guest Twitter: https://twitter.com/m_galtier

Research: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mathieu-Galtier

MELLODDY: https://www.imi.europa.eu/projects-results/project-factsheets/melloddy

Owkin

• Origins of Owkin and the healthcare interest

- life science company - research oriented - really want to cure cancer

o Medical data & Clinical predictive models

o Connect platform for Federated Learning

• Owkin Tech stack overview

o Data prep

o Infra: Kubernetes

o Application layer: Substra (python, Hyperledger fabric)

o Algorithms: any python ML frameworks (pytorch, tensorflow etc)

• open source foundation to host Substra framework for distributed computation

ML for Healthcare

• Why is ML relevant for Healthcare?

o Precision medicine: customization of treatment to individual patients based on their medical data.

o• Clinical Trials Research challenges and opportunities

oFederated Learning for Healthcare

• What is Federated Learning?

o Model training across distributed datasets. Data is never shared. (opposition centralized computation vs traveling models)

o Can you describe how federated learning can solve some of our privacy and security concerns with personal data?

o HealthChain project

o Melloddy project

• What is the HealthChain project's main objective?

• MELLODDY consortium - Owkin, NVIDIA, and King’s College London - Have you reached your goals? What's new with this collaboration?

• Academic collaboration → HealthChain

o Industrial coopetition → Melloddy

• BLockchain in Federated Learning

• Why is a blockchain relevant for Federated Learning? What is in the blockchain?

o Trustless permission regime → smart contracts for details governance / data access regimes

o Traceability & reproducibility (no 3rd party to trust) → good for certification

o Decentralized orchestration → increase security; no shadow computation

o Tokenization of data value through contribution score for training models

o Private vs public blockchains: we needed a consortium blockchain

o How can blockchain-orchestrated federated learning enable a new method of building AI models?

o Models have an identity card describing their genealogy. Their performance can be assessed on 3rd party datasets → models are production / certification ready

o Models are the most accurate possible. They serve as the basis (for transfer learning) for numerous data modalities: histology, genomics, chemistry...

•What do you believe in that most people would disagree with?

o There is no free will

• Favorite book that has influenced you

o Foundation by Isaac Asimov. Psychohistory: 2 scales individual and population.

• Keys to ML in Healthcare

 Collaboration

 Confidentiality

 Compliance

News Corner

https://www.wired.com/story/microsoft-decentralized-id-blockchain/

Occording to sources, Microsoft has been working on a decentralized identity solution since 2017 and has slowly built out the infrastructure over the past few years.. At the recent Ignite conference, Microsoft announced that it will launch a public preview of its “Azure Active Directory verifiable credentials” spring of 2021.

In the NHS pilot, for example, health care providers can request access to professional certifications from existing NHS health care workers, who can in turn choose to allow that access, streamlining a process for transferring to another facility that previously required a much more involved back and forth. U

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Disa Lee Choun, head of Global clinical sciences and operations innovation at UCB, a Belgium-based multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical company. Disa is also co-leading the first PHUSE blockchain working group (non-profit) and was named Top 100 tech women, advisor entrepreneur by the Financial times 100 most influential BAME leader.

Disa has years of experience working on technology and innovation especially in the pharmaceutical industry. Her passion is working on closing the gap for patients with unmet needs and exploring/implementing the right technologies (Blockchain, IoT, AI/machine learning, robotics, data discovery tools, and others) to accelerate the implementation of End to End patient solution.

Prior to joining the pharmaceutical industry, Disa was a co-founder of an IT company. She has an EMBA and B.S. in Pharmaceutical Chemistry.

Guest LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/disa-l-95bb981/

Company website: https://www.ucb.com/

PHUSE website: https://phuse.global/

Show Notes

•Introduction to Disa's background

•Why did you get into chemistry and pharma?

•How does your experience in pharma shape your understanding of clinical research innovation?

•Role as Head of Global Clinical Sciences and Operations at UCB

•Smart Contracts for clinical trials

•Wearables, IOT, and sensors to improve clinical trials

•Incentive mechanisms for better clinical trials

•How important is community development for the new "blockchain-enabled" business models.

•Favorite scientist of all time

•Favorite Book – 7 Seven Habits of Highly Efficient People by Stephen Covey and The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell

•Final takeaways

News Corner

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/02/19/business/cape-cod-healthcare-receives-bitcoin-donations-totaling-800k/

An anonymous donor donated bitcoin to Cape Cod Healthcare, a hospital system in my state of Massachusetts. On January 28th and on February 19, the donor, (who has previously donated USD to the hospital), sent about $400k in bitcoin to Cape Cod Healthcare. That’s a total of about $800k in bitcoin which the hospital immediately converted to USD.

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Ain Aaviksoo, MD, MPH, Chief Medical Officer of Estonia-based Guardtime Health which has rolled out a COVID19 vaccine passport technology called VaccineGuard. Ain has worked as Undersecretary for E-services and Innovation for Estonian government overseeing the digital transformation and innovation of health care, labor and social matters. Dr Aaviksoo obtained MD from University of Tartu and MPH from Harvard University. He has earlier work experience as a physician, senior level civil servant, international level consultant on large system transformation and technology adoption in healthcare, health policy researcher, CEO of public policy think-tank Praxis and as a health-tech entrepreneur.

Dr Aaviksoo has published over 20 peer-reviewed articles and contributed into several book chapters on health policy and e-health, he is also regularly presenting as invited keynote speaker on digital services and health care innovation at international events. He is lecturing in various universities on innovation and technology in healthcare.

Guest info: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ainaaviksoo/

Guardtime Website: https://guardtime.com/

Show notes

•Introduction to Ain's background

•What drove you to the healthcare industry?

•How did you first hear about blockchain technology?

•COVID-19 Vaccination rate statistics and updates globally

•COVID-19 Vaccine supply chain expectations

•What is the vision for Guardtime as a company?

•What is the impact of COVID-19 on pharma supply chain and on Guardtime?

•Can you briefly describe Guardtime's services/products/platforms and their technology stacks?

oMIDA cybersecurity – work with Verizon

oZero-Trust system

oGuardtime KSI platform

oBlockchain Protocols

oVaccineGuard

What will be the experience for a regular person getting vaccinated?

What are your company milestones goals for 2021?

•Integration with medical records

•Naturally infected/immune people

oHSX - Life Sciences

oKSI Cash - Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC)

•Experience working with the Estonian government and the WHO

•Any feedback from beta-testers of your platform?

•What is Guardtime's business model?

•Who are your company partners and major investors?

•How would you describe the company culture at Guardtime? Are you hiring?

•Outlook for 2021 and beyond

•Most influential books you've read – The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood by James Gleick. Team of Teams : New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World by Stanley McChrystal

•Final Takeaways

News Corner

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/02/10/966304438/up-against-mutants-who-says-astrazeneca-vaccine-is-still-a-good-bet.

In recent months, there have been more reports of new variants of the coronavirus across different parts of the world. In South Africa, there were plans to distribute millions of AstraZeneca-Oxford covid vaccines (viral vector genetically modified virus type) until some new evidence suggested the vaccine provided “minimal protection” against mild or moderate cases involving the B.1.351 variant also known as 501.V2. The plan would be to still rollout some of the AstraZeneca vaccine but in limited quantities and to monitor recipients closely to see how well it's working.

In terms of doses that have so far been purchased, AstraZeneca is currently the world's largest source of COVID vaccines, scheduled to deliver more than 2 billion doses this year. One thing that seems safe to say is getting a vaccine now is better than waiting for a perfect vaccine a year from now.

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Shadrack Kubyane, co-founder of Coronet Blockchain, is a former Deloitte management consultant. He founded the company with his wife, Pretty, to track the supply chain of human hair extensions to salons and individuals in South Africa. Coronet Blockchain leverages IBM Hyperledger technologies to secure the supply chain for human hair extensions.

Guest Info

Website: https://www.coronetblockchain.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shadrack-kubyane-04629b12/

Show Notes

•Introduction of Shadrack's background and experience

•Origins of Coronet Blockchain

•Problems that Coronet Blockchain is trying to solve

•Hair market in Africa and globally - supply chain

•Buyers and sellers of human hair

•How can hair extensions improve self-esteem and possibly mental health?

•Technology stack

•How is the IBM blockchain eco-system?

•What kind of data is collected in the Coronet Blockchain marketplace?

•Do you need to use blockchain for your marketplace? Why?

•What are the main challenges and opportunities that your company faces today?

•Company traction

•Growth marketing strategies in Africa

•Roadmap for 2021 and beyond

•If it’s not too personal, what would you consider to be your biggest mistake?

•Favorite book that most influenced your universe – Finding a Way to Win by André Olivier

•Final takeaways

News Corner

https://www.mobihealthnews.com/news/emea/astrazeneca-estonia-participate-vaccineguard-pilot

In January of 2021, AstraZeneca in Estonia partnered with data security and blockchain firm, Guardtime, to participate in their VaccineGuard pilot. Iceland, Hungary, and Estonia are the first countires to sign up to the new platform supporting the global covid-19 vaccination program.

Vaccination passports and the idea of immunity passports are hot topics as people try to get back to normal life. This is just one of many types of digital health technologies being used to facilitate the global rollout of the Covid19 vaccines. While this is a great step forward for the world, there are still many questions about how effective the vaccines are against new coronavirus variants. Tune into Health Unchained episode 79 where we do a deep dive into this pilot project with the Chief medical officer of Guardtime as my guest.

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Wendy M. Charles, PhD, CIP, CCRP, CBP is a researcher and regulatory compliance scientist with expertise in managing clinical research operations, quality assurance, and implementation of health information technologies. She has 28 years of research experience; 16 years of management experience with industry-sponsored and federally funded research. Wendy is Chief Scientific Officer at BurstIQ, co-chair of the IEEE Standards Development Working group for blockchain in healthcare and life sciences, and has contributed to numerous other blockchain/healthcare publications.

BurstIQ Website: www.burstiq.com

Blockchain Compliance by Design: Regulatory Considerations for Blockchain in Clinical Research: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fbloc.2019.00018/full

We talk about how we can start encouraging an ethics by design approach to building software and how dynamic consent management can provide more control over a patient’s own health data.

Related episode: https://soundcloud.com/healthunchained/ep-56-securing-health-connections-frank-ricotta-ceo-burstiq

IEEE HEALTHCARE VIRTUAL SERIES: BLOCKCHAIN & AI: https://attend.ieee.org/healthcare-blockchain-ai/

Show Notes

•Introduction to Wendy's background

•What drove you to the healthcare world?

•How did you first hear about blockchain technology?

•How does your academic research experience influence your perspectives in healthcare infotech industry?

•Digital tattoos for temporary health monitoring

•Impact of COVID-19 on Clinical research operations

•Importance of Ethics by Design

•World leadership summit link - https://worldleadersummit.com/topicscategories/blockchain/

•Dynamic Consent management, broad and specific consent

•Describe your role as CSO at BurstIQ

•What tactics is BurstIQ employing to address data privacy and personal ownership of one's data?

•Customers like Intermountain Healthcare saved ~$90M over three years by using BurstIQ: https://www.burstiq.com/burstiq-brings-90-million-case-study-to-blockchain-through-intermountain-healthcare-spin-off-empiric-health/

•What are the biggest barriers to blockchain adoption in healthcare?

•Balancing between regulatory compliance and technology innovation

•Most influential book you've read – The Patient Will See You Now by Dr. Eric Topol

•What are your thoughts about the singularity that is supposed to happen in 2045?

•If you had to have micro chip implanted in your body, where would you want it to be implanted?

•Thoughts on Neuralink technology

•Final Takeaways

News Corner

https://deepmind.com/blog/article/alphafold-a-solution-to-a-50-year-old-grand-challenge-in-biology

Alphabet’s decade old DeepMind artificial intelligence system has essentially solved a 50 year old grand challenge in biology. That problem is known as the protein folding problem. Proteins are the building blocks and operate all our functional biology systems. They are large complex molecules made up of chemical chains and amino acids. This is important because, right now, in order to figure out how a specific protein looks like and how it physically conforms in 3D space, scientists typically use X-Ray crystallography techniques which costs over $100k and takes up to a year to complete. There are currently over 200 million proteins in the main database and only about 170,000 have their 3D structures mapped out, a fraction of the 200M. This research is currently being peer-reviewed for final publication and scientists are absolutely excited about exploring this amazing technology for the advancement of scientific knowledge.

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Robert Chu is the Co-founder & CEO of Embleema. He is the former SVP of Global Technology for IQVIA & has created & managed data networks in over 20 countries in the U.S., Asia & Europe.

Robert and I talk about the tremendous value of provable, secure real world data that can be directly shared by patients to improve bio-statistical models. We also discuss his recent business partnership with Alira Health and the origins of the HIVE data analytics platform.

Embleema Website: https://embleema.com/

Disclaimer: The Health Unchained podcast is for informational and entertainment purposes only and we are not providing any sort of legal, financial, or medical advice. Please do your own research and due diligence before making any important decisions related to these matters.

Topics Overview

•Introduction to Robert's background

•What drove you to the healthcare industry?

•Experience at IBM, IMS Health, and IQVIA

•How did you first hear about blockchain technology?

•What is the vision for Embleema? Why did you start it?

•Impact of COVID-19 on on Embleema

•Epilepsy Foundation partnership and Epilepsy Digital Engagement Navigator (EDEN)

•Long-term studies are difficult to track

•Why should people care about real world evidence/data?

•Can you describe Embleema's services/products/platforms and their technology stacks?

•Hyperledger

•HIVE – High Performance Integrated Virtual Environment – data repository and analytics platform built by Dr. Vahan Simonyan who transferred HIVE property to Embleema https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-performance_Integrated_Virtual_Environment

•Tracking patient consent

•What tactics are you employing to address data privacy and personal ownership of one's data?

•Any feedback from beta-testers of your platform?

•What are the biggest barriers to blockchain adoption in healthcare?

•Synthetic control arms in clinical studies – simulation of placebo group

•Embleema's business model?

•Company partners and major investors?

•Alira Health Partnership goals

•How would you describe the company culture at Embleema?

•Outlook for 2021 and beyond

•Favorite DLT projects doing important work

•Most influential book you've read – The Lorax by Dr. Seuss

•Thoughts about the singularity that is supposed to happen in 2045

•If you had to have micro chip implanted in your body, where would you want it to be implanted?

•Final Takeaways

News Corner

https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/coronavirus-covid-19-update-fda-authorizes-first-covid-19-test-self-testing-home

On November 17, 2020, the FDA issued an emergency use authorization for the first COVID-19 diagnostic at-home self-test which provides rapid results. The Lucira COVID-19 All-In-One Test Kit is a molecular (real-time loop mediated amplification reaction) single use test that is intended to detect the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 that causes COVID-19. The Lucira COVID-19 All-In-One Test Kit test has been authorized for home use with self-collected nasal swab samples in individuals age 14 and older who are suspected of COVID-19 by their health care provider.

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Ben Taylor is the CEO of LedgerDomain, founded in 2016 to bring blockchain solutions to enterprise ecosystems. Ben spent a quarter of a century incubating and investing in early-stage technology companies. In partnership with the Clinical Supply Blockchain Working Group, LedgerDomain developed the world's first iOS blockchain app for the clinical supply chain. He's also founder of Sophrosyne Capital which has been running for over 15 years.

LedgerDomain Website: https://www.ledgerdomain.com/

Ben recently spoke at the IEEE Virtual Series on Blockchain and AI. Ben's presentation on Blockchain and Vaccine Supply Assurance: https://ieeetv.ieee.org/channels/ieee-future-directions/2020-ieee-healthcare-blockchain-ai-medical-devices-industry-day-bruinchain-ben-taylor

REGISTER FOR THE IEEE HEALTHCARE VIRTUAL SERIES: BLOCKCHAIN & AI - https://attend.ieee.org/healthcare-blockchain-ai/

Introduction to Ben's background

•How did you first hear about blockchain technology?

•What is the vision for LedgerDomain? Why did you start it?

•What drove you to the healthcare industry?

•What's your take on the impact of the recent FDA delay who said they do not intend to take action against wholesale distributors who do not, prior to November 27, 2023, verify the product identifier prior to further distributing returned product as required under section 582(c)(4)(D) of the [Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act] FD&C Act? How may this impact competition who can enter the space?

•What is the last mile of the pharma supply chain?

•What is the impact of COVID-19 on pharma supply chain and on LedgerDomain?

•COVID-19 Vaccine supply chain expectations

•Can you describe LedgerDomain's services/products/platforms and their technology stacks?

oOpen Source, Hyperledger Fabric, AWS servers, Linux Foundation

oKitchain (push system) and BRUINchain (pull system)

oDocuSeal

oXATP App

•Distributed Identity

•What is LedgerDomain's business model?

•What are the biggest barriers to blockchain adoption in healthcare?

•Privacy/Security enclaves on Mobile

•How does running a hedge fund (Sophrosyne Capital) inform the way you approach the blockchain world?

•Inventory management accuracy solutions

•How would you describe the company culture at LedgerDomain?

•Outlook for 2021 and beyond

•Favorite DLT projects doing important work not our own? Really like Atomyze for precious metals. Spam deterrence in India.

•What’s your take on Bitcoin?

•Most influential book you've read - Creative Industries: Contracts Between Art and Commerce by Richard E. Caves

•Final Takeaways

Health Unchained News Corner

With the passing of California’s ballot measure Proposition 24 or the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), the state has become the country’s leader in data privacy legislation. CPRA adds to California’s existing law, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) which gives Californians the power to know what data businesses collect about them and prevent businesses from selling that data to anyone else. The new CPRA law would close some legal loopholes in the CCPA.

Proposition 24’s provisions give Californians the ability to tell businesses not to use certain categories of sensitive information, including race, health, religion, location, sexual orientation, and biometrics. It makes more explicit that “do not sell” includes data shared between companies. And it triples fines for violations if the affected consumer is younger than 16 years old.

It provides funding for a Privacy Protection Agency that would be charged with enforcing privacy laws.

Overall, the passage of the CPRA will drive more interest in privacy preserving technologies that decentralized ledger technology can potentially offer our society.

https://www.vox.com/2020/11/4/21534746/california-proposition-24-digital-privacy-results

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Episode 1: Q&A with John Greaves, Director, Global Standards, Architecture, Conformity and Propagation at ConsenSys Health

Hosted by Ray Dogum, Podcast Chair, IEEE Healthcare: Blockchain and AI Virtual Series, this episode kicks off a special podcast series covering blockchain and AI in the healthcare industry. In this episode Ray chats with John Greaves, a globally recognized leader in technology who has pioneered development in distributed ledger technologies (DLT) and blockchain. John shares about the importance of standards for the evolving blockchain and AI space, as it relates to healthcare.

It's amazing to witness the rapid growth of the blockchain in healthcare community. Learn more about John's work on Dec. 5 at the Global Standards Collaboration Kickoff.

Register here: https://attend.ieee.org/healthcare-blockchain-ai/

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