WHAT WILL YOU LEARN?

Academic and Industry Insights for Improved Healthcare Outcomes

​The Blockchain and Digital Transformation in Health 2020 symposium features an educational program curated jointly by the Austin Blockchain Collective and Dell Medical School. Uniquely, it will provide a blend of academic and industry insights into the application of blockchain, Web 3.0 and related digital transformation technologies to achieve better health and healthcare outcomes.

This educational program has been designed to benefit key participants involved in the delivery of healthcare and health services, including:

• Clinicians, providers and researchers with an interest in digital health and technology
• Digital health specialists looking to keep abreast of technology trends
• Data scientists and medical statisticians that want to leverage these new tools 
• Payers and administrators seeking to take advantage of these technologies
• Blockchain, IT, AI and medical device innovators that wish to engage with medical practitioners and healthcare professionals

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Specific application and technology topics for discussion during the program include:

• Integration and sharing of electronic health/medical records
• Patient healthcare information management, privacy, ownership and monetization
• Out-patient engagement, medication and care management
• Clinical study and trial management, and reporting
• Pharmaceutical supply chain management and counterfeit drug detection
• Provider discovery, management and credentialing
• Biomedical, life sciences research and drug development
• Benefits management and payments
• Legal, policy and regulatory issues
• Private vs public blockchain platform determination for healthcare projects
• Web 3.0 and token approaches to delivering healthcare applications and services
• Using blockchain to underpin and protect patient identity
• Governance for blockchain consortia in healthcare and HIPAA compliance
• Managing, leveraging, protecting and sharing big data assets
• Deploying responsible artificial intelligence applications in healthcare
• Medical device data management and security

The educational program is nearly complete. See below for the latest plan of the day and check back regularly for updates and register today to lock in your attendance. Space is limited.

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8am

Registration and Networking Breakfast

​Morning Plenaries:

​9am

Welcome and Scene Setting from the Austin Blockchain Collective and Dell Medical School

Welcome to the Symposium from: * Pete Harris, Executive Director, Austin Blockchain Collective * Anjum Khurshid, Director of Data Integration, Department of Population Health, Dell Medical School​ Scene Setting Thoughts: “What Healthcare Can Learn from Wall Street” As the healthcare business increasingly becomes a data centric one, it might do well to learn from the decades of experience that has informed the strategic direction of players in the global financial markets, where “Information about money has become almost as important as money itself.” ​Industry Insights Program Track Chair: * Aman Quadri, CEO, AMSYS Blockchain & AMCHART Auditorium A+B

9.30am

Academic Keynote Presentation – Blockchain Applications to Support Biomedical Research and Healthcare

Presented by Dr. Lucila Ohno-Machado, Associate Dean, Informatics and Technology, UCSD Health This presentation will review various proposed healthcare applications of blockchain technology in the literature, and present some applications we have been pursuing that emphasize blockchain capabilities as a distributed immutable ledger and smart contracts manager. It will also discuss opportunities and challenges in introducing this decade-long technology into the healthcare informatics/information technology cultures. Auditorium A+B

10am

Industry Keynote Presentation – Blockchain in Healthcare and Life Sciences: The End of the Beginning

Presented by  Mark Treshock, Blockchain Solutions Leader for Healthcare and Life Sciences, IBM We start the new decade faced with tremendous challenges, but also unprecedented opportunities in healthcare.  Will blockchain together with AI, IoT, quantum computing and other technologies make the ‘Roaring Twenties’ the decade of healthcare transformation? Auditorium A+B

10.30am

Morning Refreshments and Networking Break

11am

Industry Insights Program	Academic & Research Program
Track Chairs: * Aaron Ali, Co-Founder & CEO, MedtoMarket ​* Indira Mysore, Director – Healthcare Community Development, Austin Blockchain Collective ​	​Track Chairs: ​* Daniel Toshio Harrell, Research Associate, Department of Population Health, Dell Medical School ​* Anjum Khurshid, MD, PhD, Director of Data Integration, Department of Population Health, Dell Medical School

Panel: How Has Blockchain Made a Difference in Healthcare – What’s the Diagnosis?

Can Blockchains be used in Science? ​

Often cited as a game changer with the promise of fixing healthcare’s inefficiencies and delivering on better patient outcomes, blockchain’s actual deployment in the space is in reality still in its early days and so definitely a work in progress.  This panel will provide an assessment of what has worked so far, the next challenges to overcome, and where real progress will likely be made over the next 12-24 months. * Shakeel Rashed, Director, Capital Factory (Moderator) * Phil Beckett, CEO, HASA * Bob Teague, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Green Room Technologies * Adam Wiedemann, Project Lead, MyPass, City of Austin Auditorium A+B ​ ​

* Dr. Ying Ding, Bill & Suit Professor, School of Information and Adjunct Professor, Dell Medical School Pitch Theater Large Scale Medical Informatics for Patient Care Coordination and Engagement * Dr. Indranil Bardhan, Foster Parker Centennial Professor of Management, McCombs School of Business, The University of Texas at Austin Pitch Theater ​ ​ ​

11.45am

Panel: Web 3.0 is Emerging – Is the Future of Healthcare Decentralized? ​

The Application of Blockchain Technology for Identity Management of Individuals Experiencing Homelessness in Austin, Texas ​

Tech pundits are pointing to increased business interest in public blockchains and decentralized applications and their potential to disrupt current business models, especially in areas such as data sharing, ownership, privacy and monetization. As the healthcare space itself grapples with these issues and Big Tech makes moves to become healthcare players, will Web 3.0 provide an architecture that individuals can benefit from. ​* Ray Dogum, Host, Health Unchained (Moderator) * Todd Chamberlain, Co-Founder & CEO, MedBlox * Heather Leigh Flannery, Founder & CEO, ConsenSys Health * Brennan Hodge, CEO, Citizen Health ​Auditorium A+B

* Timothy Mercer, MD, Director of Global Health at Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin  Realizing Interoperability: Exploring Stakeholder Perceptions of the Privacy, Security, and Care Implications of Information Sharing and Utilization through Psychiatric Advance Directives * Virginia Brown, Assistant Professor, Department of Population Health, Dell Medical School Pitch Theater

12.30pm

Luncheon and Networking Break

1.30pm




























​2.15pm

Industry Insights Program

Industry Insights Program

Academic & Research Program

Business Track: Using Blockchain to Secure and Enhance Visibility for  Pharmaceutical Supply Chains Blockchain’s utility for supply chains of all kinds is well understood. This session will focus specifically on pharmaceutical supply chains and how blockchain is enabling compliance with the Drug Supply Chain Security Act. ​ * David Stefanich, CEO, Rymedi * Matthew Atwood, Founder & President, Lonestar Life Sciences Auditorium A

Business Track: Leveraging Blockchain to Accelerate Drug Development Through Improved Clinical Trial Processes Clinical studies and trials are vital elements of effective drug development. This session will address how blockchain is bringing greater accuracy, security and transparency to the trial process. ​ * Rama Rao, Co-Founder & CEO, BloqCube * Florence Lowe, COO, Synerzip Auditorium A

Technology Track: Smart Contract Technology Innovation and Applicability to Healthcare Applications Smart contracts enable blockchain databases to run business process code. This session will explore how smart contract technologies have evolved and how healthcare applications are leveraging them. ​ * Corey Todaro, Senior Segment Lead for Healthcare, Digital Asset ​ Auditorium B

Technology Track: Leveraging Blockchain Within Scalable and Regulatory-Compliant Health Information Architectures Storing and sharing genomic, biomedical and personal health data requires more than blockchain technology. This session will cover the scalability and regulatory requirements that mandate a combination of data management technologies, and outline approaches to address them. * Brian Jackson, Co-Founder, BurstIQ ​​ * Travis James, Co-Founder & CTO, Tribe Health Solutions * Nathan Miller, CEO, Consensus Networks ​ Auditorium B

MediLinker: a patient-centric electronic health identity management system using blockchain ​ ​* Daniel Toshio Harrell, Research Associate, Department of Population Health, Dell Medical School ​ Applications across Health Care and Research that May Benefit from Blockchain * Justin F. Rousseau, MD, MMSc, FAMIA, Assistant Professor, Departments of Population Health and Neurology, Dell Medical School at The University of Texas at Austin ​Pitch Theater

Blockchain to increase transparency in healthcare processes   * Tejwansh Anand, Assistant Clinical Professor, McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin * Sriram Vishwanath, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Texas The Evolving Legal Landscape for Healthcare IT and Applications for Blockchain Technology * Kristen Johns, Partner at Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis, LLP   Pitch Theater

3pm

Afternoon Refreshments and Networking Break

3.30pm





3.30pm

Industry Insights Program Track Chair: * Pete Harris, Executive Director, Austin Blockchain Collective

Academic & Research Program ​

Panel: Combining AI, Big Data and Blockchain Technologies to Deliver New Healthcare Solutions New healthcare applications are emerging that leverage breakthroughs in artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies to deliver improved health outcomes and processes for providers and payers. This panel will discuss how AI/ML is being leveraged, and the role of big data and even blockchain in making them robust, responsible and secure. ​ * Brance Hudzietz, Ambassador of Emerging Technologies, Capital Factory (Moderator) * Meredith Butterfield, PhD, Principal Scientist, Valkyrie Intelligence * Jeffrey Eyestone, Healthcare AI Advisor, CognitiveScale * Andy Morris, Product Marketing Manager, Machine Learning, IBM Auditorium A+B ​ ​ ​ ​ ​

Designing and Testing Health Information Transfers and Patient Autonomy over Health Records within MediLinker *Jeremiah Alexander, MS1, Dell Medical School, The University of Texas at Austin * Cody Cowley, MS1, Dell Medical School, The University of Texas at Austin * Cole Holan, MS1, Dell Medical School, The University of Texas at Austin   Blockchain Technologies and Community Empowerment: The Potential for Effective Implementation of PrEP Care Delivery via P2P Networks of Local Health Service Agencies that Engage with Young Men Who Have Sex with Men * Kayo Fujimoto, PhD, MS, Sally W. Vernon, Ph.D. Distinguished Professor in Social Determinants of Health, Associate Professor, Department of Health Promotion & Behavioral Sciences, School of Public Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Pitch Theater ​ ​ ​ ​

4.15pm

Industry Insights Program

* Pete Harris, Executive Director, Austin Blockchain Collective

4.15pm

Panel: Healthcare as a Data Marketplace – Enabling #OwnYourData and Monetization Strategies

As healthcare has become a data science discipline so data – masses of good quality data  – has become not just fundamental to programs for improving patient outcomes, it has also become extremely valuable and has spawned a business in collecting, aggregating and selling it. At the same time, individuals are increasingly concerned how their personal data is being harvested and monetized by healthcare providers and wellness app developers – and they want to regain control and ownership, and even a share of the profits. This panel will discuss how the global health data marketplace – set to grow to $43 billion by 2024 – is evolving and is being disrupted by transformational technologies.

* Pete Harris, Executive Director, Austin Blockchain Collective (Moderator) * Andrea Cunha, Partner, Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis * David Koepsell, Co-Founder & CEO, EncrypGen * Aman Quadri, CEO, AMSYS Blockchain & AMCHART Auditorium A+B

5pm

Closing Remarks and Networking Reception (until 6.30pm)

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