Since our main network launch on September 13th, the team has been incredibly active within the community. Our goal is to spread the technology that we have spent so long building and get into the hands of people who can unleash its potential. To do this, we have engaged developer communities, and we are going to conferences sharing our relevant expertise.

Distributed Health: Hackathon 2017

Jordan Earls and Brett Fincaryk attended (and sponsored)the Distributed Health Hackathon in Nashville on Saturday. There were about 50+ participants competing for the 2 main prizes: $10,000.00 in Bitcoin, and the Qtum Challenge of $2500.00 paid in Bitcoin. The good folks at Better Doctor had great giveaways for people using their API’s as well, so make sure to thank all the sponsors that made this happen.

Jordan Earls was one of the judges on the panel, joined by other industry experts.

The winner of the $2500.00 Qtum Challenge prize went out to HEALTH POOLED

HEALTH POOLED

Here’s the breakdown from Jordan himself:

Jordan Earls for Health Pool: “Health Pooled was my vote for the Qtum prize. Their project was revolutionary and solves a real problem in the world, especially today in the US with rising healthcare costs. They built an in-depth prototype on the Qtum blockchain and showed it in their demonstration. I felt Health Pooled was a project built with the true sense of “decentralized” in mind, and as such was an ideal use case for blockchain technology.”

Main Prize $10,000.00 Winner!

The main $10,000.00 prize was won by

Mercantis:

Mercantis

Mercantis provides a secure marketplace for verified medical research and EMR data.

Health research while necessary, is inefficient and costly. Why? In part, bc public datasets are not aggregated and key terms aren’t easily searchable. As much as 85% of medical research is redundant, costing us near $200 billion a year.

The only way to get a specific dataset from a scientist is to personally ask, which researchers are often reluctant to do — unless you’re a colleague, b/c it’s risky and they aren’t being compensated.

The privacy and security of health data poses a large ethical concern. Studies show that more than 80% of consumers are willing to share their health data for research — but it must be private and secure.

Lastly patients have had little control over their health information. In research participants are paid for their data, but are then divorced from any future use of that data.

Enter Mercantis.

Mercantis offers a novel ethereum-based solution with a react front end. After receiving the participant’s consent, the researcher uploads the participant’s health data onto the blockchain as an electronic health record. Within the application, other researchers can obtain this raw de-identified data by paying the source researcher and participant a nominal fee.ers can obtain this raw de-identified data by paying the source researcher and participant a nominal fee.

Demo: https://www.dropbox.com/s/djl2pdidocfk540/demo2_health.mov?dl=0