How Blockchain Could Impact the Future of Health Care
Health care continues to move quickly into a future where entire reimbursement mechanisms are being altered, technological advancements are exploding, care itself is being delivered and received in new ways, innovations across the entire system are occurring, and demographics are placing increasing pressures. From robotic process automation to artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things, the capacity for health care to assimilate all of these ongoing shifts, let alone a new technology like blockchain may be too much for all but the largest of entities right now.
But while there may real-world barriers hindering blockchain’s quick adoption, the long-term potential for this technology is significant. Key health care use cases include:
- Revenue Cycle
- Smart Contracts
- Supply chain
- Medical records or clinical information sharing
- Consumer applications (telehealth, virtual health, and purchasing health services)
CLA’s blockchain white paper can help explain why.
Jennifer Boese is the Director of Health Care Policy at CLA. She is a highly successful public policy, legislative, advocacy and political affairs leader, including working in both the state and federal government as well as the private sector. She brings over 20 years of government relations and public policy knowledge with her to CLA. Well over half of her career has been spent dedicated to health care policy and the health care industry, affording her a deep understanding of the health care market and environment, health care organizations and health care stakeholders. Her role at CLA is to provide thought leadership, policy analysis and strategic insights to health care providers across the continuum related to the industry's ongoing transformation towards value. A key focus of that work is on market innovations and emerging payment models. Her goal is to help CLA clients navigate and thrive in an increasingly dynamic health care environment.
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