7) Chronicled
The San Francisco-based tech company applies blockchain technology combined with IoT systems to supply chains to help improve traceability and accountability. It is crucial in industries such as pharma, precious metals or other high-value commodities.
In case of time- and temperature sensitive healthcare products such as various vaccines, safe and timely delivery is crucial. Blockchain solutions could help speed up logistics, minimize discrepancies, create potential cost savings from streamlined processes, improve product visibility, and add transparency as products travel through the pharma supply chain.
Chronicled is also a partner in the MediLedger Project, announced in September 2017, which aims at demonstrating compliance with the Drug Supply Chain Security Act. The project also seeks to prevent counterfeit medicines from entering the supply chain. Pfizer, AbbVie, Genentech (part of Roche), along with wholesalers AmerisourceBergen and McKesson are also involved.
8) Coral Health
The very young Canadian enterprise wants to leverage the power of blockchain to make personalized medicine happen. In their White Paper released March 2018, the team describes how stakeholders in healthcare store patient data in disparate formats and disconnected data sets. Poor data sharing practices hinder among others the process of drug discovery and public health research. Coral Health aims to create a platform where patients could securely and easily share their health records with other stakeholders, which could facilitate a broader application of personalized medicine – for example mapping the possibilities in personal genomic information.
The start-up released the demo of its medical records app early February. Users can add their medical health records or have someone add them, and they can choose various doctors to share the data with and request health tips. It already looks great, but they are inviting people to give feedback to their innovation, to make it even better.