EY explores incentivized blockchain healthcare marketplace

The vision for blockchain and healthcare is for patients to own and control their own health records and provide access to care providers and insurers. But that goal seems a long way off. As a starting point, US health insurers agreed to collaborate to share data about healthcare providers. An EY/Humana whitepaper published yesterday sets out a vision to create an incentivized marketplace for provider data.

Pain point

As a patient, if you have health coverage and want to visit a doctor, you need to know which health providers your medical plan covers. So your health insurer has to keep a list of all the relevant doctors, dentists, hospitals and other medical providers. The process of maintaining these lists is called provider data management (PDM).

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