Attendance:
Ray Dogum
Erika Beerbower
Mike McCoy
Christian Raimondo
Michael Chuang
Doug Bulleit
Elisabeth Green
Geoffrey Kalman
Hyperledger Project
Jonathan Holt
Kirit
Geoff Kalman
Jim St.Clair
Mauricio Jimenez
Rafaele Bischof
Nathan Odotei
Introductions
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HC-SIG & Community Announcements
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- Hyperledger Member Job Board:
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HC-SIG Subgroup Updates
Patient/Member Subgroup (Deniz Coskun, Lead)
Payer Subgroup (Raveesh Dewan, Lead)
Healthcare Interoperability Subgroup (Steven Elliott, Lead)
Groups to Join
- Telegram Groups: Health Unchained, Blockchain for Science, Women in Web3 x Science
- Discord Groups: Hyperledger (#healthcare), Distributed Health, Molecule, VitaDAO, PsyDAO, DeSciWorld
- Slack Groups: ResearchHub
Upcoming Events
- April 27 2-3pm ET - T-Mobile 5G and Healthcare Panel Discussion Webinar
- Aug 29-31 - Stanford: The Science of Blockchain
Industry News and Interesting Projects
- Microsoft invests in Ethereum co-founder’s start-up ConsenSys - Raised $450M in new round of funding doubling its valuation to $7B
- Medical Ethicists Endorse NFTs - “The trick with data or information is that it’s not like property, where one transfers ownership and gives up rights or claims to it”
- Coinbase launches NFT marketplace - Any Ethereum-based collection will be accessible on Coinbase NFT, with “more [blockchains] available soon"
- 22% NFT art project- bringing awareness about the global prevalence of over 60 diseases
- Putting the 'Me' in the Healthcare Metaverse - Eberhard Scheuer, President of dHealth Foundation shares perspective of individual identity management in the metaverse
- A16z Forms Crypto Research and Coding Unit to Help Web 3 Startups
- Okay to opt out of the crypto revolution? - Mentions Mediledger network for supply chain tracking as the most industry-transforming use case so far
Educational Nuggets
- Decentralized Speed: Advances in Zero Knowledge Proofs - A brief history of zkSNARK and PLONK technology
- Ethereum's Centralization Dilemma through Lido Staking - Concerns over Lido controlling liquid ETH staking
- Update to Lido's Decentralization Roadmap - The next chapter for Lido
- Health Unchained Ep. 92 - Revolutionizing Prescriptions in Latin America – Everardo Barojas (CEO Prescrypto)
- A16z A Guide to Decentralized Biotech - Written by Dr. Jocelynn Pearl