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

Meeting recordings/transcript

In attendance:

• Rich Bloch (recording)
• AlexZhovnuvaty
• Alicia
• anthony
• Deniz Coskun
• Fdo
• Kamlesh Nagware
• Paty Buendia
• Ray Revuru
• Wendy Charles
• ...
• Dial in phone numbers

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

• Anthony joins us as a PharmD from Kaiser Permanente, living now in the Bay Area. His interest is in the use of self-sovereign identity (SSI) management
• Ray joins us as an engineer from Presidio, a digital consulting group with interests in understanding blockchain technologies in the healthcare industry

Community Announcements

• 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

• Wendy notes the following upcoming events:
  • 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

HC-SIG Subgroup Updates

• Patient/Member Subgroup (Deniz Coskun, Lead)

  • Very productive meeting
    • Working to define a clinical trials process flow (Patricia Buendia)
    • Most recent meeting had Michael Dillhyon, Founder of HealthBank join the team
    • Deniz presents slides and patient recruitment process flow table
    • Kent Lau presented his graph with view of user interactions with UI, blockchain, analytics, and IoT data (sensors/wearables)
    • Good discussion on patient consent

• 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)

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

  • Currently working with Hyperledger community leadership to identify and establish use case templates and consistent processes

Wendy continues to work with the Hyperledger community leadership team to identify resources her team can utilize as they develop blockchain technologies use cases in the healthcare domain

Old Business

• None

New Business

• Healthcare Funding Opportunities
  

  • Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)

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

• Open Discussions (Rich)

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

Next Meeting

• Scheduled for Friday, 2019.08.23, 0700 Pacific Time

• Discussion: topics to add to agenda?