Much of the promise of blockchain comes with its potential to disrupt and change how healthcare works, a position leading to questions and concerns among the healthcare community including HIMSS members – on what blockchain-driven disruption might look like. With that in mind, HIMSS has recently established a work group to examine blockchain distributed ledger technology and its potential implications for the healthcare information and technology community. We have quickly established initial teams focused on evaluating these best practices, reviewing the vendor landscape, and providing guidance to our HIMSS community on what types of healthcare challenges blockchain might impact.

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