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)

  • Benjamin handing over the leadership reigns to Deniz Coskun
  • A great opportunity to get involved in helping to set some new directions in this subgroup

• 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)

  • Logan's updated proposal to the team posted on 04/23, 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

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

  • We are ready for a call among those interested in writing use cases for blockchain. I went through the HIMSS book, and it seems that the most requested use cases with the strongest value propositions are:

    • Drug Supply Chain Processing
    • Medical Device Track-and-Trace
    • Health Information Exchange
    • Provider Credentialing
    • Provider Directory
  • Also added an important academic article by Horst Treiblmaier to the Hyperledger Use Case Google Drive, located here. This article provides recommendations for writing solid blockchain case studies and use cases
  • Discussion: interested in joining this team?

Old Business

• Excellent Blockchain Research Resource Available (Wendy)

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

• 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)

• 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?