OUR SERVICES
SECURE PATIENT-CENTRIC SOLUTIONS IN HEALTHCARE
UTILIZING THE DECENTRALIZED SECURITY OF BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGIES
With the advent of cross-discipline enabling technologies, the management of healthcare systems is becoming both increasingly rich in its complexity, and broad in its capabilities. Never before has our healthcare system had the potential to deliver services that are secure, interoperable, cost-balanced, and equally accessible and attributable by all system users.
We believe that blockchain architecture and underlying technologies associated with it, have the potential to transform the delivery of public and private sector digital healthcare services through transparency, security, and distributed trust, while placing the patient at the center of their own patient-managed healthcare data repository.
We are tasked to offer secure, scalable, and cost-balanced blockchain services using distributed ledger technologies (DLTs) and self-sovereign identity management solutions. Our healthcare solutions incorporate the following key elements in their novel designs:
INTEROPERABILITY
LONGITUDINAL ACCESS ACROSS SYSTEMS
Through the use of distributed ledger technologies, our healthcare solutions
serve as an
abstraction layer--or interoperability broker--between
disparate healthcare systems
SECURITY
END-TO-END ENCRYPTION
Compliance is critical when managing healthcare data, wherever it might
exist. Our solutions
provide
for highly-encrypted links
between data endpoints at all times.
AUTHORITY
PATIENT-MANAGED ACCESS TO DATA
In a patient-centric architecture, the patient serves as arbiter of their
healthcare data,
deciding who to share their private
information with, and what aspects of that data to share
ACCOUNTABILITY
ALL TRANSACTIONS IMMUTABLY RECORDED
Every request, every access, and every change made through our healthcare
solutions are
irrevocably
documented with full traceability
as to who, when, where, and how transactions were made with patient
healthcare data
A DISTRIBUTED
ARCHITECTURE
ARCHITECTURE
With a patient-centric interface, our healthcare solutions are decentralized to
afford multiple
permissioned users secure access
to longitudinal healthcare data
PROVEN
TECHNOLOGIES
TECHNOLOGIES
Our healthcare solutions utilize best-in-class technologies and modern protocol
standards to secure
key requirements such
as data security, compliance, and interoperability
COMPANY NEWS
2020 MAY
01
And then COVID-19 Happened...
Enough said. While so much of the world struggles to understand and adapt to
this unprecedented
global healthcare event, the DHIO team continues to focus--albeit with many
fewer public
engagements--on the ongoing issues that surround the design considerations and
implementation of
healthcare compliance and interoperability using blockchain technologies. We
hope this pandemic
passes soon, and
wish our customers and colleagues the best of outcomes.
2020 APR
03
Article Published: "Interoperability is Crucial to the Future of Healthcare"
DHIO Principal Rich Bloch has today published an article entitled "Interoperability is Crucial to the Future
of Healthcare" to
the Lumedic
healthcare
website (since acquired by Advata in 2022), a
revenue cycle management (RCM) company developing patient-centric,
cost effective solutions using blockchain technologies.
In the article, Mr. Bloch identifies how healthcare interoperability, and the
novel technologies
developed and implemented in support of open community interoperability
standards, will drive the
future of exceptional patient-managed healthcare outcomes.
2019 NOV
29
Paper Published in Oxford Academic's JAMIA Open
An academic paper has been announced for publication today, entitled "Use of Patient-Generated Health Data
across Healthcare Settings: Implications
for Health Systems." Published in Oxford Academic's JAMIA Open, this paper focuses
on the
prevalence of chronic
conditions and how patient-generated healthcare data can serve to supplement the
management of care,
drive "connected health," and improve patient outcomes.
This is the second research publication made in collaboration with DHIO's Rich
Bloch, and a team of
professional healthcare researchers at the University of Washington, Department of
Surgery.
2019 SEP
17
Acamedic Paper Published on Patient Generated Healthcare (PGHD)
In collaboration with a team of professional healthcare researchers at the University of
Washington,
Department of Surgery, Mr. Bloch, DHIO Principal, was today notified of
the acceptance
for publication of their peer-reviewed paper.
The paper is entitled "mHealth and Patient Generated Health Data:
Stakeholder Perspectives on Opportunities and Barriers for Transforming
Healthcare", and has
been published in the journal mHealth: A Journal for Research,
Validation, and Discussion of Mobile Technology, Digital Health, and
Medicine. This paper,
identifying the barriers to integrating patient generated
health data (PGHD) into existing clinical health systems, is the result of a
two-year research grant
from the Patient-Centered Outcomes
Research Institute (PCORI), won by the
team in 2017.
2019 JUL
08
Linux Foundation/Hyperledger HC-SIG Interview
DHIO Principal Rich Bloch was interviewed about his role
as chair of the
Hyperledger Foundation Healthcare Special Interest Group (HC-SIG),
representing an
international membership of 1000+ healthcare and technology professionals united
in advancing the
state of the healthcare industry through the implementation of enterprise-grade
technology solutions
utilizing the Hyperledger Foundation's greenhouse of business blockchain
frameworks and tools.
2019 JUN
28
2019 Seattle Devcon Blockchain Conference Healthcare Presentation
As part of a team of healthcare professionals, Mr. Bloch was pleased to develop
and moderate a
very well received panel discussion on the topic of blockchain technologies in
the healthcare
industry at the 2019
Seattle Devcon Blockchain Conference. Panel members included:
- David Hazel: Co-Founder, Healthflow
- Davis Aites : Enterprise Architect, Change Healthcare
- Anderson Nascimento, Ph.D : Associate Professor, University of Washington/University of Brasilia
- Suzanne Scharlock : Product Manager, Decent Health
- Karen Stone, MD : Medical Director at EvergreenHealth, Evergreen Healthcare
- Brian Anderson : CTO, Lumedic
2019 MAR
20
UW Medicine Keynote Address Delivered
Today, DHIO Principal Rich Bloch was honored to deliver the keynote address at
the 2019 Patient
Engagement at UW Medicine Workshop presented jointly by the
University
of Washington,
Department of Medicine and the Health Services Platform Consortium
(HSPC). Mr. Bloch spoke on his personal
experiences as a patient, and talked
on the topic of the balance between governmental/institutional policy and the
advancement
of healthcare technologies. Presentation is available for viewing
here (YouTube).
2019 MAR
15
Article Published: Health Data Management Magazine
An article entitled "3 Ways Blockchain Technologies Can Impact
Healthcare Now" has
been published in Health Data Management
Magazine, an IT management
resource. DHIO Principal Rich Bloch served as lead author, working in
collaboration with
healthcare consulting colleagues
Hannah Berson and
Lukasz Kozinski.
2019 FEB
11
Annual HIMSS Conference and Blockchain Technologies
As a representative of the
Hyperledger
Foundation
Healthcare Special Interest Group (HC-SIG), DHIO Principal
Rich
Bloch
joined members of the
Hyperledger
Foundation
team
to serve as an educational resource for international healthcare IT
professionals attending the
annual
HIMSS
(Healthcare Information and
Management
Systems Society) Conference, held this year in Orlando, USA.
2018 OCT
18
Bloch Elected to Chair Hyperledger Foundation Healthcare Special Interest Group
Today, DHIO Principal Rich
Bloch
was elected to chair the Hyperledger Foundation
Healthcare Special Interest Group (HC-SIG), an international group of 1000+
healthcare professionals seeking to utilize blockchain technologies in general,
and
Hyperledger
Foundation
frameworks and tools in specific, to solve domain-specific issues.
2018 OCT
16
Blockchain NW Forum Healthcare Panel Moderated by DHIO
As part of Seattle
Blockchain Week 2018,
DHIO Principal Rich
Bloch
today moderated a panel discussion on the future of blockchain technologies in
healthcare at the
Blockchain NW
Forum held in
Bellevue, Washington.
Panelists included members from GE
Healthcare,
Change
Healthcare,
and healthcare startup
Clinicoin.
2018 AUG
22
DHIO Principal Speaks on Future of Healthcare
Rich
Bloch,
Principal
at DHIO, today participated in a panel discussion on topics as they relate to
patient-centric
future
healthcare solutions at the national
KidneyX
Listening Session, hosted in Seattle by the
University of
Washington,
Northwest
Kidney Centers
(NKC),
the
Department of
Health and Human
Services
(HHS)
, and the
American
Society of
Nephrology
(ASN).
U.S.
Congresswoman Suzan
DelBene,
along with HHS leaders from the
Office
of
the Chief Technology Officer, the
National
Institutes of Health
(NIH),
the
Food and Drug
Administration
(FDA),
and the
Centers for
Medicare and Medicaid
Services
(CMS)
, as well as patients, providers, startups, and the biopharmaceutical and
venture capitalist
communities
participated in the listening session. Participants shared their input on how
KidneyX
could eliminate
barriers
to innovation in nephrology.
2018 MAR
05
Blockchain Technologies in Healthcare at the HIMSS Conference
As a representative of the
Hyperledger
Foundation Healthcare Special Interest Group (HC-SIG), DHIO Principal
Rich
Bloch
joined members of the
Hyperledger
Foundation
team
to serve as an educational resource for international healthcare IT
professionals attending the
annual
HIMSS
(Healthcare Information and
Management
Systems Society) Conference, held this year in Las Vegas, USA.
2018 FEB
27
DHIO Principal Organizes Seattle Hyperledger Foundation Group
DHIO Principal
Rich
Bloch
was,
today, selected to lead a Pacific Northwest-based Hyperledger Foundation group
called the
Hyperledger
Seattle Meetup
, the purpose of which is to bring together area professionals interested in
understanding,
implementing, and utilizing blockchain
technologies across a variety of enterprise spaces, including healthcare and
pharmaceuticals, law,
automotive,
finance, and others. All, using various aspects of the
Hyperledger
Foundation's
framework
and tool offerings.
If you or your organization would be interested in sharing your experiences with
any aspect of the
Hyperledger
Foundation
with a growing membership of 500+ area blockchain technology professionals,
please contact us.
2018 FEB
04
Hyperledger Foundation Project Selected as Blockchain Platform Resource
After extended due diligence, the DHIO team has selected blockchain framework
and tools resources
available through the
Linux
Foundation's
Hyperledger
Foundation
Project for
their
POC projects. The choice was predicated on a number of factors including
codebase stability,
availability,
and velocity (rate of change). Significantly, Hyperledger Foundation frameworks
and tools are all
open-source,
and
licensed under the very liberal
Apache 2.0
License.