Blockchain is not healthcare

September 18, 2017 - Research R167

Blockchain is great technology that has yet to prove its value outside of the financial space. Yet companies, desperate to get on the “next big thing,” are now pushing blockchain for anything and everything – even when the picture shows high costs and low delivery of benefits. Nucleus examined the blockchain for healthcare narrative and found that, for the solutions offered, blockchain was either not feasible, or was a solution to a problem that didn’t exist.