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Active since June, 2018 and led by Deniz Coskun, the Patient/Member Subgroup continues to work towards a build effort leveraging Hyperledger tools in the healthcare space. We have meetings every other week and we are active in the healthcare Special Interest Group mailing list (see #patient-member-subgroup and #DonorMilk for and for details). We aren't seeing a lot of engagement on Rocket.Chat or on the Wiki, but we continue to work to engage folks on those platforms.
The Patient/Member Subgroup underwent a transition in leadership in January which also served as a documentation effort. The main challenge currently facing our subgroup is the loss of our main sponsor for the Donor Milk POC upon which we were focusing our primary efforts. This has left us without product guidance for the development of our blockchain POC as well as without the perspective of a pilot sign off for any MVP. As a result we are currently investing in two options:
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and again in June, so we are again in the midst of a leadership pivot. Since the start of this quarter, subgroup membership has been surveyed on topics to investigate, and we believe to be settling around a work effort that will investigate the workflow of clinical trials utilizing blockchain technologies as a means to harmonize disparate clinical trial management software (CTMS) solutions.
Payer Subgroup
The Payer Subgroup continues to work on the white paper and refine the use cases and to ensure the right use cases are being selected for POCs.
We are working on the Block Chain Decision paper that will help payers understand and identify the need for blockchain.
Link to the work in-progress white paper - Link to White Paper - IN-PROGRESS
- Integration of Payer Subgroup activities with local Hyperledger Meetup group
New Hyperledger MeetUp Meetup started in Maryland.
Meet Up Link - https://www.meetup.com/Hyperledger-Maryland/
First Meet Up meeting will including the Payer Sub Group meeting and an effort to invite local leaders in Healthcare to sponsor Use Case POC
Event Date:
Thursday, July 18, 2019
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
https://www.meetup.com/Hyperledger-Maryland/events/262686247
POC. This is a kick-off event for the Hyperledger - Greater Baltimore Area Meet-Up Group Meetup Group to help support the local Blockchain and Hyperledger Community.
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The establishment of regular speaker presentations from across the healthcare community to provide “real world” experiences in the design, implementation and establishment of a Hyperledger Project solution within their enterprise context
- The establishment of additional HC-SIG subgroups that appeal to membership healthcare specialties
- The development of an online HC-SIG healthcare resource for blockchain technologies. Numerous HC-SIG members have asked for academically-based educational resources to both learn about, and better communicate the value proposition of blockchain technologies in healthcare
The completion of the redesign/migration of the HC-SIG Wiki in order to:
Provide a more meaningful “front door” experience for new members to quickly discover HC-SIG resources and subgroups
For established members, serve as a dashboard of activities and accomplishments
Better separate (and highlight) our subgroups (where the real action is) from general group coordinating activities/governance
Patient/Member Subgroup
Depending on whether our search for a new sponsor is successful, we would either resume the work on the Donor Milk POC or, if not, begin a selection progress to determine which project idea should replace it. The main intent is still to contribute to the broader Hyperledger code base through the lab. Given the current uncertainty, we do not have a defined product roadmap but we expect to engage in recruitment activities (especially around developer resources) either wayWith the shift to new leadership in June, the subgroup team has been active in identifying a clinical trials use case. The plan for this upcoming quarter will be to explore and mature the use case to a point where a POC can be defined and requirements expressed. A very preliminary architecture is already in place.
Payer Subgroup
- We are looking to expand the membership to include team members.
- Local Payer Subgroup event in Maryland scheduled for Thursday, July 18, 2019.
- Finalize the POC/Prototype for a use case and kick off that effort in this upcoming quarter.
Healthcare Interoperability Subgroup
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