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

  • Consider posting your contact information in our HC-SIG Membership Directory

Community Announcements

• Blockchain Health Summit, happening October 15-17 in New York, USA (New York City)
  
  • Anyone from membership planning to attend?

• Global Blockchain Summit, happening in Westminster, CO on OCT 03/04
  • Wendy Charles, HC-SIG Vice-Chair, will be speaking at this conference event

• Converge2Xcelerate Conference, happening in Boston, MA on OCT 15
  • Tory Cenaj, conference coordinator, will be presenting at an upcoming HC-SIG guest speaker

• Do you have any announcements that you'd like to share with the HC-SIG community?
  • Feel free to make an announcement here, on our Rocket.Chat channel, or via our email listserv

HC-SIG Subgroup Updates

• Patient/Member Subgroup (Deniz Coskun, Lead)

• Payer Subgroup (Raveesh Dewan, Lead)

• Healthcare Interoperability Subgroup (Steven Elliott, Lead)
  • Kickoff meeting scheduled for AUG 27, 8:00AM Pacific
  • Interested in participating? Contact Steven over on our Rocket.Chat channel

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)

• HC-SIG Use Case Development Team (Wendy Charles, Lead)

  • Team kick-off meeting happened on July 11
  • Excellent use case white paper (a very good resource) now available
    • Toward More Rigorous Blockchain Research: Recommendations for Writing Blockchain Case Studies
    • Download as PDF

Old Business

Old Business

• Healthcare Funding Opportunities
  

  • Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)

  • National Institute of Health (NIH)
  • UNICEF Innovation Fund

New Business

• Open Discussions (Rich)

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

Next Meeting

• Scheduled for Friday, 2019.09.06, 0700 Pacific Time

• Discussion: topics to add to agenda?