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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 Helathcare Healthcare SIG playlist is averaging about 100+ views per video. LinkedIn page too created and obtained 82 83 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 the perspectives of other members and their opinions on industry news. However, there is a lack of unified purpose in the group, other than sharing research, articles, and discussionguest presentations on industry and research presentations. Our three subgroups of Patient, Provider, and Interoperability have stopped meeting and are no longer active.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 around these and other subgroupsas 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 82 83 followers till now 

Planned

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Work 

  • Guest presentations on every monthly meetings
  • HC - SIG Blog posts
  • eBook
  • Review available healthcare/blockchain courses
  • Identify interesting topics for guest presentations and set up events

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 the India. The number of participants constantly increases and attendees from Asian countries, and United States are improving. 

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