Welcome and Opening Statements

• Videoconferencing/teleconferencing connect details are available here

• A reminder to all HC-SIG members that this meeting is being recorded

• Reading of the Linux Foundation Antitrust Policy

  • Hyperledger Antitrust Slide

Meeting recordings/transcript

In attendance:

• Rich Bloch (recording)
• Bob Clint (Susan Ramonat)
• Antony Denyer
• Deniz Coskun
• Erika Beerbower
• Jeff Stollman
• johnwalker
• Kamlesh Nagware
• Ken Allgood
• Marissa
• nisarg
• Paty Buendia
• Saptarshi
• Steve Wishstar
• wCZBD1Qkxp
• Wendy Charles

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

Community Announcements

• Interested in joining HC-SIG members at the upcoming Hyperledger Global Forum in Phoenix on March 3-6, 2020? Better still, interested in presenting on blockchain technologies in healthcare topics?

  • The deadline for submitting a talk proposal is September 27. This is coming up soon so be sure to send your presentation idea before then.  Details about the submission process, registration and more are on the Hyperledger Global Forum 2020 site, https://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/hyperledger-global-forum-2020/
    
    

• Global Blockchain Summit, happening in Westminster, CO on OCT 03/04
  • Wendy Charles, HC-SIG Vice-Chair, will be speaking at this conference event
• Blockchain Health Summit, happening October 15-17 in New York, USA (New York City)
  
  
• Converge2Xcelerate Conference, happening in Boston, MA on OCT 15
  

  • #ConV2X 2019 is an intensive, one-day program presenting Real-World Market Impact of Blockchain, Telehealth, and Converging Innovation in healthcare that is grounded in reality. Market makers and top world authorities prove market value leveling the playing field of misconception and understanding across the ecosystem with real world case use and paths forward from around the globe. JOIN. ENGAGE. INFLUENCE. 

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

  • Feel free to make an announcement here, on our Rocket.Chat channel, or via our email listserv

Guest Presentation

• Assuring medical device safety and quality has become a huge global issues due to exploding volumes and complexity, the number of players involved in ensuring devices are safe and in good order, rising regulatory obligations, and poor transparency across supply chains and a specific asset's operating life, which may run as long as 10 years.
  
  Spiritus CEO Susan Ramonat and CTO Bob Clint will share more about the problems faced by health systems, device manufacturers and 3rd party service providers.  They'll also describe how they're leveraging investments in tagging and tracking technologies and data standards, along with DLT/blockchain, geospatial services and analytics to provide much-needed traceability, verification and actionable analytics about a device's safety and quality status.

• Spiritus presentation slides are available here (PDF)

Next Meeting

• Scheduled for Friday, 2019.10.04, 0700 Pacific Time

• Discussion: topics to add to agenda?