Q1/Q2 2024 Report- Healthcare Special Interest Group
- A Anasuya Threse Innocent
Healthcare Special Interest Group (HC-SIG)
| Description | It is the mandate of this Special Interest Group, the Hyperledger Healthcare Special Interest Group (HC-SIG), to represent healthcare professionals and technologists, and globally unite in advancing the state of the healthcare industry through the implementation of technology solutions using blockchain technologies in general, and the umbrella of Hyperledger frameworks and toolsets in specific. Healthcare SIG wiki page : Healthcare SIG |
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Healthcare-SIG Overall Health
The HC-SIG meetings were held every two weeks at the start of the year with less participants. Then the meetings were moved to every 3rd Wednesday of month at 3 pm GMT | 8.30 pm IST with guest presentations, and the participants count tremendously increased. June meeting count was 23. All meetings are recorded on our YouTube, and the Healthcare SIG playlist is averaging about 100+ views per video. LinkedIn page too created and obtained 140 followers till now. The General Meetings continue to focus on collaborative Industry cum Academic Research for the betterment of the humankind.
Issues and Challenges
The Healthcare SIG which was completely inactive has started to slowly gain its momentum; keeping it up continuously is a challenge. Meeting attendees are typically interested in guest presentations on industry and research outcomes. Our three subgroups of Patient, Provider, and Interoperability have stopped meeting and are no longer active. There is still some interest in creating new ways to build community as the new members are mostly students and are interested in learning new things.
Overall Activity in the last 6 months
- Hosted 6 Healthcare SIG meetings and published to YouTube. June meeting was live streamed on YouTube with the houseful attendance of 23.
- 2 Guest presentations conducted
- LinkedIn page of Healthcare SIG created and achieved 140 followers till now
Planned Work
- Guest presentations on every monthly meetings
- HC - SIG Blog posts
- eBook
Participant Diversity
Participants in meetings come from a similar range of background in healthcare, mostly health technology veterans and people relatively new to the space trying to learn more about the Healthcare SIG as a resource for blockchain technology in health. There is generally an even number of females and males who have been attending meetings and are mainly from India. The number of participants constantly increases and attendees from Asian countries, and United States are improving.
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