While the term blockchain has populated numerous news feeds and executive board room conversations recently, just how the technology works and what it can do for healthcare has remained somewhat of a ...

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It always starts with a spreadsheet. The emergency light goes out, the oxygen concentrator starts acting up, and somewhere in a shared folder, someone opens a bloated Excel file to log the issue — ...