5) Guardtime
The Estonian company, a team of over 150 cryptographers, developers and security architects with decades of experience defending networks from (Russian) state attacks, is a pioneer in K.S.I. blockchain technology. They operate in the Netherlands, Estonia, US, UK and Singapore and tackle data breach management, secure critical infrastructure, enable the safe operation of e-governments, work with financial markets, telecommunication stakeholders, insurance companies or defense and aerospace enterprises.
Regarding healthcare, In March 2017, Estonia’s eHealth Authority signed a deal with Guardtime, a blockchain pioneer, to secure the health records of over a million Estonians. These highly sensitive records also contain genetic information of patients in thousands of cases. In January 2018, the company signed a deal with a private sector healthcare provider in the United Arab Emirates to bring the technology to the Arabic country.
6) Gem
The Venice Beach, California-based software product company was established four years ago; and aims to build tools to connect large and disconnected data sets on one platform, GemOS, powered by the blockchain technology. In healthcare, they are exploring how blockchain can support patient-centric healthcare and personalized medicine.
Regarding the health sector, Gem partnered with Philips, a European health service provider, Tieto and the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention. The latter is interested in the better management of population health data and, even more specifically, data relevant for disaster response. In case of Tieto, Gem helps them to connect such specific data silos as Finnish blood banks and DNA registers.