Course Agenda
DAY ONE
9:00am – 9:30am - Introductions & Review of Agenda
9:30am – 10:30am – The Nature of Trust
- Historic Overview
- Byzantium General Problem
- Trust in the Digital Domain
- Cryptography
- Exercise
10:30am – 10:45am - Break
10:45am – 12:00pm - What can we learn from the Crypto-Currency Phenomenon? How can tokens be utilized in Pharma R&D, Supply Chain, and Clinical Trials Recruitment
- Miners
- Authenticators
- Incentives
- Exercise – White Paper Review 1 (selected from 143 ICO papers, unless otherwise specified.)/li>
12:30pm – 1:00pm - Lunch
1:00pm – 2:00pm – Why Don’t Tokens Work In Healthcare? What are the friction points in Pharma Supply Chains?
- Legacy Systems
- Interoperability
- Identity
- Patient Data
Exercise - White Paper Review 2
2:00pm – 3:00pm – The Supply Chain Use Case (aka Everyone’s Favorite Pharmaceutical Blockchain)
- Definition
- Cold Chain
- Drug Supply Chain Security Act
- Keys to success and failure at implementation
- Permissioned Chains, Public Chains, and Hybrid Chains
- Consensus
Exercise – White Paper Review 3 - IBM Supply Chain Example
3:00pm – 3:15pm - Break
3:15pm – 4:30pm - The Blockchain Interoperability Myth and the hope for a Blockchain Identity
- Utilizing EHR data silos for patient data access
- New ways to look at patient data referenced on the blockchain
- Will Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) go extinct from blockchain implementations?
- Value Based Contracting on the Blockchain
- Zero Knowledge Proofs
Exercise - Interactive buildout of a Blockchain PBM
4:30pm - 5:00pm - Recap, Questions and Answers
DAY TWO
9:00am – 10:30am: The Best Healthcare Blockchain Use Case So Far
- What are the specific blockchain takeaways for Pharma, Medical Device, and Life Science Companies.
- Can Supply Chain Blockchains prevent ingredients from getting lost, track chemicals that become inactive due to insufficient temperature control, and flag medicines that are wrongly prescribed by malfunctioning computer systems, and identify counterfeit medications slip through cracks in security
- Synaptic Health Alliance (Optum, Multiplan, Humana, Quest, Labcorp)
- HHS Acquisition System
- Blockchain Marketplaces will be showing up everywhere.
- Trust Exchange Framework
Exercise Review Synaptic White Paper, Interactive Buildout and How does this SHA effort help other, compliance, regulatory, clinical trials, and patient facing efforts?
10:30am – 10:45am - Break
10:45am – 11:30am: GDPR Implications for Blockchain: It’s not just privacy, it’s about access.
- Implications for Medical Devices
- Data Overload is now being regulated
- Blockchain IoT Considerations in the EU and beyond
- Don’t use Blockchain to duplicate an existing process
- Adverse Event Tracking
Exercise White Paper Review 3: Blockstack, Civic, Basic Attention Token
11:30am – 12:30pm: Platforms and Chains - What is the GDPR Blockchain Paradox and what are the effects on Medical Devices and Life Sciences?
- HIPAA Compliance
- Amazon
- IBM Bluemix
- Microsoft Azure
- Hyperledger
- EOS
- Ethereum
Exercise EHR Whitepaper
12:30pm – 1:30pm: Lunch
1:30pm – 2:45pm: Regulation, Compliance, Reporting Utilizing a Blockchain
- FDA
- Severe Adverse Event (EU and US)
- 21st Century Cures Act
3:30pm – 3:45pm: Break
3:45pm – 4:30pm: Exercise Clinical Trials and Trust
- Clinical Trials Recruitment and the Blockchain
- Are CRO’s a thing of the past with Blockchain? (Probably not)
- Redefining the relationship with the Study Participant
- Realigning incentives utilizing a blockchain to increase clinical trials participation
4:30pm – 5:00pm: Recap, Questions and Answers
Course Evaluation
