Anne Canfield, writing for Blockchainplusthelaw.com, gives us a brief description of why we need new cryptographic advances and a privacy protocol that delivers blockchain's advantages. She envisions a decentralized social network that uses nodes to sign a smart contract between new ‘friends’ where posts, statuses...
Amazon Web Services has launched their new Blockchain Templates as a way to accelerate blockchain app development on Ethereum or Hyperledger Fabric networks. They expect the offering to give AWS users an easy entry into a wide range of applications, including payments, logistics, contracts and...
Paul A. Jones, writing for Michael Best's Best Venture has some advice on whether to take your startup to Silicon Valley in search of venture capital. While on one hand, Silicon Valley might be the fastest way to determine whether your startup is "venture-worthy" by Valley...
Read the Jennifer Georgino interview David Houlding, Director of Healthcare Privacy and Security at Intel Health and Life Sciences (HLS), about enterprise blockchain implementation, hosted by Blockchain Healthcare Review. As Houlding says, "There are amazing benefits blockchain technology can bring to the industry in terms...
In this article, Anne Canfield writes, "2017 may have been the year of the cryptocurrency, but 2018 is shaping up to be the year of the blockchain." She also predicts, "This technology will the next big leap forward in increasing productivity." The article describes new developments...
Today, the U.S House of Representatives passed a federal spending bill that will fund the government through September 30, 2018. The bill offers several benefits and a few setbacks for the healthcare industry's providers and payers. Containing significant changes to those proposed by president...
More than 80 percent of all data breaches appear to take advantage of stolen or weak password credentials. In this CIOInsight.com article, Brett McDowell discusses the new National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recommendations on “strong passwords” designed to make password creation more secure for everyone. McDowell...
What do employers expect from college graduates they hire? Do they want an emphasis on STEM disciplines – science, technology, engineering and math – or a liberal arts background that may be more adaptable? In this new article, the president of the Wisconsin Technology Council...
The HIMSS18 Global Conference & Exhibition in Las Vegas has wound up. In the latest issue of Healthcare IT News, Mike Miliard gives us an overview of the hot topics of the week. Acknowledging that the post-EHR era has fully arrived, he writes, "There was the...
Near the end of last year, the Commodity Futures Trade Commission (CFTC) proposed a seemingly esoteric new rule that would define the term “actual delivery” for retail commodity transactions in virtual currency. Learn more about the CFTC’s new “functional approach” to actual delivery of virtual currency and...