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Digital Identity Management for NGOs using Blockchain (#HackSociety 2018 Entry)

This Post Was First Published on Rappler Currently, there are people around the world, including our ethnic communities in the Philippines that don’t have an identity yet, in terms of not having a birth certificate or any type of official government registration. Often, this lack of official identity extends to adulthood, creating complications with school […]

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Blockchain and Humanitarian: Documenting the Invisible People

The disruptive nature of Blockchain is going beyond business and is at the forefront of reshaping humanitarian efforts by providing an essential platform to manage identities, streamline the traceable distribution of aid and enabling direct patronage to person transactions. When technology such as Blockchain is changing the world for the better, then we can see […]

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Blockchain for Humanitarian Aid Programs

The rise of Bitcoin is changing commerce as we know it. Through cryptocurrencies, consumers or companies are given an alternative way to pay for assets, items and services. Not long after, Blockchain has been repurposed and outfitted across the industries of healthcare, insurance, real estate and logistics. Blockchain is seen as the next evolution of […]

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Automation and Blockchain = Transforming Insurance Claims by Elimination

The insurance industry has seen technologies come and go, from the early days of the intranet and private computers that exist to process information into data. Today, these technologies have since been retired as the intranet has given way to today’s complex internet structure while private computers have moved past its bulky format into thousands […]

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How Disruptive Technologies are Changing the Insurance Industry

The insurance industry has one of the most resource demanding processes in order to complete a cycle that defines a completed transaction. In this case, an insurance application was successfully filed and stored — but at the cost of time, personnel collaboration and paperwork. Now imagine tens of thousands of insurance applications and claims being […]

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The Transformative Effect of Blockchain on Insurance

The potential of Blockchain in the insurance industry is based on optimization and efficiency of the entire insurance process. In reshaping the insurance industry for the better, Blockchain is changing the process from the ground up by allowing automation when it comes to the transfer of value, Blockchain’s immutable record capabilities and autonomous transfer process […]

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How Blockchain Boosts Healthcare

By 2022, the India’s healthcare sector will be worth at an estimated $372 billion, but the cost of delivering healthcare related services to a still growing population of 1.35 people is deemed insufficient. The country’s healthcare and pharmaceutical sector are ranked number 3 when classified under the categories of manufacturing capabilities and providing employment, but […]

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How Close is the Healthcare Overhaul with Blockchain?

Researchers have accounted many researches, studies and use cases of Blockchain in healthcare and have surmised that the impending Blockchain revolution  is closer than we think. According to the research paper “Geospatial blockchain: promises, challenges, and scenarios in health and healthcare”, published by joint researchers associated with universities in Scotland, the UK, and the US, […]