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Welcome and Opening Statements

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

    • Consider posting your contact information in our HC-SIG Membership Directory
    • Questions? Review our HC-SIG FAQ for answers

Community Announcements

  • Student application is open for this year's Hyperledger Mentorship Program

    • Additional details here

    • We would love to receive lots of applications from our own academic members and hopefully their students get selected to work on some of these projects this year

    • Application deadline: APR 24 (2020.04.24)

  • Do you have any announcements that you'd like to share with the HC-SIG community?

Special Topic: Conquering the COVID-19 Virus Pandemic

How can blockchain technologies have a positive impact on the identification, prevention, and management of this pandemic?

  • How might innovative blockchain technologies--including DLTs, SSI, and cryptocurrencies/tokens--solutions help to:
    • Slow the progression of this deadly virus
    • Manage life-saving logistics networks and medical supply chains with improved throughput and efficiencies
    • Serve as a means for more timely and more accurate healthcare communications model across communities, states, provinces, and countries

Special Guest Speakers

  • Anesu Machoko, CEO & Co-Founder of MetaDigitaI
    • A description of the work that Anesu and his team are doing with self-sovereign identity (SSI) in the healthcare industry, and how their solutions might be used to help manage secure exchanges between patient, provider, and pharmacy during and after this COVID-19 virus pandemic
      • Anesu and his team will be presenting more formally at an upcoming HC-SIG General Meeting, and we thank him for offering to help drive today's very timely and important discussion around the COVID-19 virus pandemic

Status and Funding/Support from Around the World

Status and Funding/Support in the US

Next Meeting

  • Scheduled for Friday, 2020.05.01, 0700 Pacific Time

  • Discussion: topics to add to agenda?

Resources

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