The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has opened a dedicated blockchain laboratory to explore its potential use case in healthcare applications.

The Center for Biomedical Blockchain Research (CBBR), as the lab, is called, will scholastically evaluate blockchain-enabled solutions, while providing partnerships and consulting services with companies working on these projects. The solutions in focus at the center will be related to biomedical data management, machine learning, and data governance. The research center will also utilize the opportunity to build and test its blockchain-enabled apps within the Mount Sinai Health System.


Dr. Joel Dudly – the chief of the CBBR, and the Executive Vice President of Precision Health at Mount Sinai – acknowledged the fragmented nature of regional and global healthcare systems. Being a medical professional who will be researching blockchain to improve data analytics and machine learning, Dr. Dudly particularly stressed on traditional systems’ inability to facilitate smooth healthcare information.

In the same breath, Dr. Dudly recognized blockchain for its potential to improve many things on the ground.


“We expect that some early use cases could emerge from areas where existing systems and approaches fall short […] We see the potential for blockchain and related technologies to enable applications that support more unified healthcare ecosystems and serve the greater goals of realizing national and global precision health networks,“ he stated.

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