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July 31, 2018 -- ADVFN Crypto NewsWire -- One of
the most well-known
hospitals in the United States is now moving into the
Blockchain industry.
Despite this, before you proclaim
across social media that the advent of Bitcoin was always bound to
change health care as we know it, it is important to begin by
understanding the facts of the move.
On July 31, Mount Sinai’s Icahn School of
Medicine announced the launch of its “Center for
Biomedical Blockchain Research,” which will exist in the midst of
its older, yet just as forward-thinking wing called the “Institute
for Next Generation Healthcare.”
Given that this particular institute is already researching
possible new usages of artificial intelligence, robotics, genomic
sequencing, sensors, and wearable devices, in the medical industry,
the launch of a Blockchain center might seem to have been
inevitable.
In other words, this was already
where the hospital’s most forward thinkers were doing their work,
so why not add Blockchain technology to the mix? When the situation
is understood in this way, it might seem as if the launch is not
really a prominent piece of news, as much an inevitable but nice
step in the right direction.
Despite this sense that is given,
Coindesk’s article on the subject says that the center will not
only work on academic research related to medicine and the
Blockchain, but also on building their own
Blockchains, free of existing networks, and studying
them.
When this is added to the news that
the center will be headed up by Joel Dudley, who has not only worked in
medicine but also in artificial intelligence, then other possible
connections come to light.
Is it, in fact, possible that the
new wing might end up working on projects in which AI, medicine,
and the Blockchain intersect? With the existence of
projects like Farmatrust, which already has
connected the pharmaceutical industry with both of the other
aforementioned industries, the possibility is definitely
there.
Once the center begins publishing
its research for the first time, we will begin to see exactly what
it means to be a first mover related to developing new connections
among some of the most important industries, today.
By: BGN Editorial Staff
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