{"id":25154,"date":"2016-04-28T20:02:22","date_gmt":"2016-04-29T03:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/blockchain-smart-contracts-a-hyper-deflationary-force-for-health-care-delivery"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:01:13","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:01:13","slug":"blockchain-smart-contracts-a-hyper-deflationary-force-for-health-care-delivery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/blockchain-smart-contracts-a-hyper-deflationary-force-for-health-care-delivery","title":{"rendered":"Blockchain Smart Contracts: A Hyper-Deflationary Force for Health Care Delivery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/blockchain-smart-contracts-a-hyper-deflationary-force-for-health-care-delivery.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Blockchaining coming to healthcare digital services.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Blockchain and digital health services could be a perfect match for each other across a variety of applications. From distributed interoperable health records to proof of adherence for medication, the healthcare industry is ripe for digital innovation. More generally, technology is a hyper-deflationary force, and this could be particularly effective in delivering quality health care through more effective channels such as mobile apps.<\/p>\n<p>Investments in the digital health space have increased significantly in the past two years. This is largely possible because of improved low-power sensors and user-friendly cloud platforms that interface with those hardware devices. The <em> <\/em> <em>Rock Health Funding Database<\/em> shows a $4.5 billion increase in venture funding in digital health from 2014 to 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Smart contract technology is built on top of virtual currencies such as Bitcoin and is a hallmark of \u201cBitcoin 2.0\u201d platforms. Blockchain is the fundamental infrastructure needed for Bitcoin transactions to work, and an enabling technology for the next generation of asset-based platforms.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasdaq.com\/article\/blockchain-smart-contracts-a-hyper-deflationary-force-for-health-care-delivery-cm613264\">http:\/\/www.nasdaq.com\/article\/blockchain-smart-contracts-a-h...y-cm613264<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blockchaining coming to healthcare digital services. Blockchain and digital health services could be a perfect match for each other across a variety of applications. From distributed interoperable health records to proof of adherence for medication, the healthcare industry is ripe for digital innovation. More generally, technology is a hyper-deflationary force, and this could be particularly [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1318,1694,1497,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitcoin","category-electronics","category-energy","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25154"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67610,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25154\/revisions\/67610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}