Welcome and Opening Statements

• A reminder to all HC-SIG members that this meeting is being recorded

• Reading of the Linux Foundation Antitrust Policy

  • Hyperledger Antitrust Slide

• Discussion: request for note-taking for this meeting

Introductions

• If you’re new to the group, please…

  • Introduce yourself

  • Tell us where you're geographically located

  • Share with us your interests in healthcare in general, and blockchain technologies in specific

Community Announcements

• Academic research engagement request for anyone with active production-level blockchain technologies solutions

  • Michel Rauchs and colleague Apolline Blandin at the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF), an academic research centre at Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, are developing the second edition of their Global Blockchain Benchmarking Study, an empirical study analysing the enterprise blockchain ecosystem. 

  • If you and your company have live enterprise blockchain networks that have already been deployed into production, please contact Michel or Apolline for possible inclusion in this important study

HC-SIG Subgroup Updates

• Patient/Member Subgroup (Benjamin Djidi, Lead)

• Payer Subgroup (Raveesh Dewan, Lead)

• Healthcare Interoperability Subgroup (Steven Elliott, Lead)

HC-SIG Ad Hoc Team Updates

• Wiki Redesign Team (Raveesh Dewan, Lead)

  • Work continues on our SIG site design

  • Discussion: are you a Confluence expert... interested in joining this team?

• Academic Research Team (Logan Wilding, Wendy Charles, Nisarg Amin, and Adrian Berg, Lead)

  • Excellent team meeting held on 04/12

  • Logan's updated proposal to the team posted on 04/1223, draft located here 

  • Original team whitepaper, currently in works, draft located here

  • Open team discussions remain:
    • Identify a succinct and comprehensive mission statement
    • Decide whether to remain an ad hoc team or consider forming an HC-SIG subgroup

Old Business

• HC-SIG Use Cases (Rich)
  • From last meeting, it was determined that we should develop and publish healthcare use cases. Rich will help to facilitate this. Wendy suggested that her access to academic white papers will likely have use cases that we might use to get started
  • Discussion: your thoughts on developing uses cases for HC-SIG? Volunteers to lead this effort?

• Blockchain Governance (Rich)
  • Rich followed up with Hyperledger leadership, and it was noted that there is currently no blockchain governance group or activity in place that serves in a cross-cutting capacity (i.e., beyond the healthcare industry)
  • Discussion: should we continue to pursue this issue beyond the scope of the HC-SIG? Perhaps engage other SIGS in discussion on their interests?

New Business

• Great New Blockchain Excellent Blockchain Research Resource Available ! (Rich, Wendy)

  • Special thanks to Wendy Charles for sharing her list of blockchain article citations (97 pages of excellent research resources)

• New Healthcare Challenge Opportunities (Rich)
  • Sponsored through the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
    • Social Determinants of Healthcare (SDoH) Innovation Challenge
      • Opens 2019.04.29
      • Phase I deadline: 2019.06.07
    • Home & Community Based Care Innovation Challenge
      • Opens: 2019.04.29
      • Phase I deadline: 2019.06.07

New Business

• Upcoming HC-SIG Presentations (Rich)

• Brian Bentow, Head of Innovation at InstaMed will be presenting on the work that he and his team have been doing as it relates to the development of an open-source Hyperledger Fabric solution for use in the healthcare industry

• Speaking at an upcoming HC-SIG General Meeting (05/03)2019.06.14: Fernando Latorre of Conéctate Soluciones y Aplicaciones, SA, will present on the topic of their Universal Health Chain product, based on Hyperledger that offers a universal proof of truth of medical data and processes. 

• 2019.06.28: Raveesh Dewan, CEO of Joget, Inc. (and lead of the HC-SIG Payer Subgroup) will present on the topic of developing a more visual way for building blockchain applications using Hyperledger Fabric and Joget.

• Open Discussions (Rich)

  • Discussion: your thoughts on changes you'd like to see with the HC-SIG?

Next Meeting

• Scheduled for Friday, 2019.06.14, 0700 Pacific Time

• Discussion: topics to add to agenda?