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Coffee Time Briefing
27 February 2024

Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ☕ 

Today's briefing includes a coalition of industry and health charities warning of missed opportunities to tackle antimicrobial resistance in the
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Blockchain
23 March 2022

Blockchain makes medical data more secure

Jonas Lundqvist, CEO at Haidrun, looks at how a blockchain-powered digital healthcare ecosystem can increase the security and privacy of
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A screenshot of the MyClinic app, developed by Medicalhain, a medical blockchain firm
10 October 2018

GP practice opens doors to cryptocurrency payments with Medicalchain

Patients at The Groves Medical Centre now have the ability to pay for private services using a form of cryptocurrency
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25 September 2018

Has blockchain’s time come in health and social care?

The Emperor's New Clothes, a genuinely transformative breakthrough, or something in between? Gareth Baxendale considers the blockchain, and the potential
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A mobile phone displaying the MyClinic logo
31 May 2018

Blockchain-enabled telemedicine service to be piloted with London patients

MyClinic, which allows users to attend video consultations with a GP and pay for them using cryptocurrency, will be piloted with
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16 March 2018

Patients Know Best joins forces with blockchain company for virtual shared record

An online patient portal software company has partnered up with blockchain company to provide a virtual shared medical record to
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John Ainsworth
26 April 2017

Connected Health Cities creates blockchain patient consent model

Connected Health Cities has produced a prototype that uses bitcoin technology to create a patient consent model which gives specific
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28 December 2016

Most read Digital Health features and columns, 2016

Digital Health readers wanted to know how trusts had really got on with high-profile deployments in 2016; while communicating with
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31 August 2016

Ewan Davis: working on the (block)chain gang

Some blockchain techs have great potential in healthcare. But the NHS needs to think carefully about which techs are useful
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12 May 2016

Bitcoin tech applied to clinical trial documents

The blockchain technology that underpins the virtual currency Bitcoin has been applied to clinical trial documents, to see if it
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