Apr 5, 2018
Cyrus Maaghul is a serial
entrepreneur currently applying distributed systems, blockchain,
and cryptocurrency technology to the health care industry as
founder and CEO of HealthCombix and Co-founder/Board Member at
PointNurse. Cyrus' health care blockchain thought-leadership has
appeared in articles on CoinDesk, Nasdaq, Distributed, and other
media outlets. His experience as a payments technology entrepreneur
and working inside world-class organizations like Fidelity
Investments' Blockchain Incubator and Deloitte Consulting give him
a unique perspective to advise, develop strategy, and build
decentralized networks. HealthCombix is currently developing new
foundational infrastructure and custom applications for
decentralized health care, including identity, consent, privacy,
smart health trusts, governance, and asset management capabilities.
PointNurse is a digital decentralized autonomous-based peer-to-peer
virtual health platform seeking to drive down the cost of primary
care, streamline clinical trials, and nursing by displacing various
intermediaries. Cyrus’ interest in blockchain technology began in
2013 after investing in Bitcoin. This led to his investigating how
to use blockchain to solve problems related to privacy,
peer-to-peer data sharing, security, administration costs, and
virtual community governance.
00:00 The most misunderstood aspect of blockchain.
05:30 Achieving scale within blockchain.
07:50 Solving a specific use-case with blockchain.
09:45 The 6 benefits of blockchain in health care.
10:00 Reducing the complexity of health care with blockchain.
10:25 Creating a single blockchain system for health care, and what
that would look like.
13:05 Streamlining a prior-authorization system.
15:15 “In the real world, you won’t know if blockchain is
happening.”
18:30 How providers can view their patients’ health files and add
to them via blockchain.
20:00 How this blockchain EHR system could then become integrated
within provider systems.
21:00 “Sometimes technology is the easy part.”
22:00 How robust patient health records (PHRs) will be if
government mandated.
25:00 “Public health departments can really benefit from these
systems because they can monitor in a much more real-time way.”
27:50 Cyrus’s advice for an executive at a payer or provider
organization about blockchain.
30:40 HealthCombix and what it is.
32:20 You can learn more at healthcombix.com.