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Healthcare Special Interest Group (HC-SIG)

Description

It is the mandate of this Special Interest Group, the Hyperledger Healthcare Special Interest Group (HC-SIG), to represent healthcare professionals and technologists, and globally unite in advancing the state of the healthcare industry through the implementation of technology solutions using blockchain technologies in general, and the umbrella of Hyperledger frameworks and toolsets in specific.

Healthcare SIG wiki page : Healthcare SIG

Report Author(s)

A Anasuya Threse Innocent 

Healthcare-SIG Overall Health

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 SIG playlist is averaging about 100+ views per video. LinkedIn page too created and obtained 82 followers till now. The General Meetings continue to focus on collaborative Industry cum Academic Research for the betterment of the humankind.  

Issues and Challenges

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 discussion. Our three subgroups of Patient, Provider, and Interoperability have stopped meeting and are no longer active.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 subgroups. 

Overall Activity in the last 6 months

  • Hosted 6 Healthcare SIG meetings and published to YouTube
  • 2 Guest presentations conducted
  • LinkedIn page of Healthcare SIG created and achieved 82 followers till now 

Planned Work Products

  • 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 mainly from the United States. 

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