Innovation and Challenges with Decentralized Payments and Smart Contracts

<p>The session will address what and who the stakeholders are in healthcare, and how smart contracts can be deployed in decentralized payment system in healthcare, types of platforms that can be deployed, the structure of private blockchains, what the best public platforms for smart contracts with payments are, and if scalable, technological limitations. In addition, best case implementations ,where smart contracts are deployed , specifically, with healthcare payments and reimbursements.</p><p>Heather Flannery (Moderator), ConsenSys Health, Health Circle Global Lead</p><p><a href="https://consensys.net/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">https://consensys.net/</a></p><p>Heather Leigh Flannery is the Health Circle Global Lead at ConsenSys and the Co-Founder and Board Chair of Blockchain in Healthcare Global ("BiHG"), a new 501(c)6 trade association organized under the IEEE ISTO launching in Q4 2018. She chairs the IEEE SA P2418.6 Standards Development Working Group (blockchain in healthcare and life sciences) and serves as the FY19 Co-Chair of the global HIMSS Blockchain in Healthcare Task Force. Ms. Flannery is also an Innovation Fellow at EP3 Foundation, has served as Industry Faculty for the United States Department of Health and Human Services Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (US HHS ONC) and is an active consultant, advisor, and keynote speaker. </p><p>Avinash Burra, Digital Asset, Product Manager</p><p><a href="https://digitalasset.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">https://digitalasset.com/</a></p><p>Avinash Burra is the Healthcare Product Lead at Digital Asset, the leading provider of distributed ledger solutions to financial services and other highly regulated markets. Based in New York, Avinash works with large healthcare providers, payers, and clearinghouses to redesign common business processes that can benefit from using distributed ledger technology (DLT) to streamline multi-party workflows. He brings a wealth of experience working in healthcare and financial services and ex