Introductions
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Share with us your interests in healthcare in general, and blockchain technologies in specific
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HC-SIG & Community Announcements
Do you have any announcements that you'd like to share with the HC-SIG community?
- Hyperledger Member Job Board:
Feel free to make an announcement here, on our Discord 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)
Groups to Join
- Telegram Groups: Health Unchained, Blockchain for Science, Women in Web3 x Science
- Discord Groups: Hyperledger (#healthcare), Distributed Health, Molecule, VitaDAO, PsyDAO, DeSciWorld
- Slack Groups: ResearchHub
Upcoming Events
- April 27 2-3pm ET - T-Mobile 5G and Healthcare Panel Discussion Webinar
- Aug 29-31 - Stanford: The Science of Blockchain
Industry News and Interesting Projects
- Microsoft invests in Ethereum co-founder’s start-up ConsenSys - Raised $450M in new round of funding doubling its valuation to $7B
- Medical Ethicists Endorse NFTs - “The trick with data or information is that it’s not like property, where one transfers ownership and gives up rights or claims to it”
- 22% NFT art project- bringing awareness about the global prevalence of over 60 diseases
Educational Nuggets
- Decentralized Speed: Advances in Zero Knowledge Proofs - A brief history of zkSNARK and PLONK technology
- Ethereum's Centralization Dilemma through Lido Staking - Concerns over Lido controlling liquid ETH staking
- Update to Lido's Decentralization Roadmap - The next chapter for Lido
- Health Unchained Ep. 92 - Revolutionizing Prescriptions in Latin America – Everardo Barojas (CEO Prescrypto)