Friday, February 15, 2019

Giant Panda: Stanford Medicine Workshop: Blockchain Technology in Healthcare, 1 Tracks transactions and stores data in a CHAIN of blocks, 2 Decentralized and distributed so it creates TRUST in the data (2:20) by solving a cryptographic puzzle as first step to adding a block in the ledger, 3 Dramatic lessening of intermediaries - i.e. such as bankers/lawyers etc. (3:20) ... how could blockchain be used with tele-robotic surgery? * * * re Epic and Electronic Health Records (EHR) in the US, but especially in all ~200 other countries in the world re blockchain for robotics' systems for medicine (again re this "MIT Symposium on Blockchain for Robotic Systems" .... https://youtu.be/OcSYWWuO6rU ...)? As I learned in Stanford Medicine Grand Rounds many months ago, Epic EHR controls about 50% of the US health data market * * * How much need is there for TRUST in the Epic/Cerner Electronic Health Records (EHR) data (used by ~%50 of US hospitals)? And what could blockchain add to these EHRs if they were developed anew with blockchain - and re, for ophthalmological surgery to begin - and planning for all ~200 countries?


Stanford CDH - Center for Digital Health - Workshop: Blockchain Technology in Healthcare

Dear Dr. Chang, 

Thanks for your excellent Stanford Center for Digital Health CDH Workshop: Blockchain Technology in Healthcare - https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cdh-workshop-blockchain-technology-in-healthcare-tickets-56202924460 - and great to talk with you afterward. Greetings to Dr. Diana Do MD (and to Dr. Bob Harrington MD, with whom I've talked about this as well). 

You'll find here MIT Digital Currency Initiative's Director Neha Narula talking on a panel in the last hour or so of this recent day-long MIT Blockchain with Robotic Systems' conference - some about cryptocurrency with blockchain questions - "Symposium on Blockchain for Robotic Systems" .... https://youtu.be/OcSYWWuO6rU ... and saying that no current cryptocurrency can scale larger than 1 billion people at this stage (accessible from ...  https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/12/tunguska-russia-asteroid-1908.html ... (where I blog some about tele-robotic surgery as well - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/surgery). Neha is also the Director of the MIT Digital Currency Initiative - https://dci.mit.edu/ .  The MIT CDI is working on developing the technical side of cryptocurrency. (And World Univ & Sch is exploring facilitating an UBI partly as a way to distribute an initial single cryptocurrency).

Your talk was so much more sophisticated than this - "What is blockchain" -

https://twitter.com/ValaAfshar/status/957308334154985472 :

1 Tracks transactions
the way it tracks and stores data is in a CHAIN of blocks

2 Decentralized and distributed so it creates TRUST in the data (2:20)
solves a cryptographic puzzle as first step to adding a block in the ledger

3 Dramatic lessening of intermediaries -
i.e. such as bankers/lawyers etc. (3:20)


- but based on this, and your cryptocurrencies with blockchain focus, I asked what happens when a single cryptocurrency with block chain ledger (and with robotics' systems) backed by some number of central banks in the world (eg the 19 of 28 European Union banks?) emerges?

Vis-a-vis your research example, World University and School is planning online MIT OCW-centric / Stanford Medicine-centric online 'medical schools' - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Medical_School and  https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Medical%20Schools - and with online teaching hospitals - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Hospital - for online clinical care in all ~200 countries' official and main languages - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States - each offering online free-to-students' Bachelor, Ph.D., Law, M.D. and I.B. degrees in main languages. Clinical ophthalmology would happen, conceptually, online re the above. 

I'm also interested in creating a Realistic Virtual Earth (for everything actually) which could become an approach to planning for blockchain with tele-robotic surgery. Conceptually, this would be like Google Street View with time slider / Maps / Earth / at the cellular and atomic levels too, with / TensorFlow / Google Poly a library of virtual objects and Google's ARCore (for AR) - and importantly, potentially with Stanford & Duke Medicine's / Google's Project Baseline, and with eventual realistic avatar bots, and which would be group build-able (thinking Second Life / OpenSim now into Sansar ), and eventually too for tele-robotic surgery (brainstorming-wise). Very nice to meet and talk with you in person as well. 

Robert, conceptually, how might tele-robotic ophthalmological surgery work with blockchain ledger with the images / machine learning example you outlined - and re your research project? 

Thank you again for your excellent "Blockchain Technology in Healthcare" talk. And I look forward to learning more from you in the future. 

Thank you, 
Scott







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Hi Robert, Diana, Jonathan and Robert, 

Thanks again for you excellent Stanford Center for Digital Health CDH Workshop: Blockchain Technology in Healthcare - https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cdh-workshop-blockchain-technology-in-healthcare-tickets-56202924460 - yesterday. I blogged a bit about your great talk here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/02/giant-panda-stanford-cdh-workshop.html .

Robert, do you know Jonathan Chen at Stanford Medicine? 

With regards to your excellent talk yesterday, Jonathan, I wonder too what your thinking is, and re your Oasis research project, re Epic and Electronic Health Records (EHR) in the US, but especially in all ~200 other countries in the world re blockchain for robotics' systems for medicine (again re this "MIT Symposium on Blockchain for Robotic Systems" .... https://youtu.be/OcSYWWuO6rU ...)? As I learned in Stanford Medicine Grand Rounds many months ago, Epic EHR controls about 50% of the US health data market - https://twitter.com/HeartBobH/status/1096621647916724224 - and I could see the article Bob Harrington (chair of Stanford Medicine as well as of Director of CDH) posted, as a way for Epic to bid up a price to sell their data to Apple for example (in the shifting EHR marketplace, now becoming global). It seems too like there are Stanford's/Google's Project Baselines-- World University and School data opportunities (into online hospitals with avatar bots for tele-robotics surgery in each of all ~200 countries) - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Robotics - where WUaS would be interested in coding for the other 50% of the EHR market in the US (https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/healthcare-information-technology/epic-cerner-hold-50-of-hospital-ehr-market-share-8-things-to-know.html), and in each of the other ~200 countries re planning for 'universal health care' (which phrase you mentioned after your talk). Just some further questions/brainstorming re your fascinating and timely talk, Robert. Thank you.

Best regards, 
Scott

Are you on Twitter:
Jonathan Chen MD - https://twitter.com/jonc101x
Bob Harrington MD - https://twitter.com/HeartBobH

Scott MacLeod - https://twitter.com/scottmacleod   

World Univ and Sch Twitter - http://twitter.com/WorldUnivandSch

Languages - World Univ - http://twitter.com/sgkmacleod   


“Naked Harbin Ethnography” book (in Academic Press at WUaS) - http://twitter.com/HarbinBook

(OpenBand (Berkeley) - https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand ) )

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How much need is there for TRUST in the Epic/Cerner Electronic Health Records (EHR) data (used by ~%50 of US hospitals)?

And what could blockchain add to these EHRs if they were developed anew with blockchain - and re, for ophthalmological surgery to begin - and planning for all ~200 countries?



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Robert (Chang MD), Robert (Harrington MD) and All,


How much need is there for TRUST in the Epic/Cerner Electronic Health Records (EHR) data (used by ~%50 of US hospitals)?

And what could blockchain add to these EHRs if they were developed anew with blockchain - and re, for ophthalmological surgery to begin - and planning potentially for all ~200 countries?

And, hypothetically, if Stanford-Duke-WUaS Medicine's / Google's Project Baseline were to develop our own EHRs with trustworthy blockchain ledger data - beginning with ophthalmological surgery blockchain data (what's missing sometimes in Epic EHRs' ophthalmology data that blockchain could help with?) could we develop EHR relationships with the other 50% of hospitals in the US, and with hospitals in all ~200 countries around the world?

Thanks again for your excellent talk, Scott
 
(Thanks Dr Chang for your great Stanford Medicine CDH (@HeartBobH) Blockchain Technology in Healthcare talk https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cdh-workshop-blockchain-technology-in-healthcare-tickets-56202924460 How much need is there for TRUST in Epic/Cerner EHR data (used by ~%50 of US hospitals) & what could blockchain add to these



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