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According to Deloitte, the healthcare industry is planning the most aggressive deployments of blockchain, with 35% of health and life sciences planning to deploy by 2018. Deloitte found that 28% of respondents across all industries said they’d already invested $5 million or more, while 10% have invested $10 million or more in blockchain. The Blockchain in Healthcare conference will enable healthcare professionals to understand how blockchain technology such as cryptocurrency, smart contracts, distributed databases, and public ledgers are, and will continue to transform their sector. We are now seeing start-ups focusing on blockchain – whilst existing technology businesses are integrating blockchain technology into their overall offerings - building pilots and working with customers to develop roadmaps forward. The first blockchain was theorized by Satoshi Nakamoto in 2008 and applied the following year as a key component of the digital currency bitcoin, but that was just the tip of the iceberg. A secure public ledger concept can be applied to almost all aspects of doing business whilst removing slow and outdated workflows. Using a peer-to-peer network and a distributed timestamping server, a blockchain database can be managed autonomously. Blockchain is the future business model of supply chain and can be applied to the entire healthcare value chain. Exploring the latest innovations: Learn about the fast-changing regulatory and technological environments as well as the latest projects, ideas and strategies that are leading the Blockchain revolution in healthcare.

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