Dr. Wood spent 30 years as an officer in the US Army in both active duty and national guard roles. Additionally, he worked as a Department of the Army Civilian at Dwight D. Eisenhower Army Medical Center, Ft. Gordon, GA. He most recently served as Chief Medical Officer, Virtual Health for the Army’s Regional Medical Command-Atlantic Region (RHC-A). In that role he was responsible for the oversight and development of Virtual Health clinical services throughout RHC-A. 

His previous positions included appointments as the Chief of Telehealth Services at Dwight D. Eisenhower Army Medical Center where he established the center’s first multi-specialty telemedicine services department and as the Chief Medical Information Officer and the Chief of Clinical Investigation Department with oversight of research facilities and regulatory oversight for research performed at Army facilities in the Southeastern United States. In this latter role, he was also the Principal Investigator and Program Manager for the development and management of the Defense Medical Research Network and the first electronic Institutional Review Board IT system deployed across the Department of Defense (DoD) military health system. 

During Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2004/2005, Dr. Wood was the Chief of Clinical Operations for the Multinational Corps in Baghdad where he was responsible for reviewing, recommending, and establishing clinical policies, guidance, plans and standards in support of 135,000 coalition soldiers in Iraq. Also in this role, he established new clinical databases and provided analysis for better forecasting of medical support needs and trends in battle injuries across the theater of operations.

Also holding a PhD in endocrinology research, Dr. Wood, who retired from the military in 2015, is board certified in Internal Medicine and Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism. He is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists. Using a variety of modalities, his clinical practices have implemented both traditional clinic settings and virtual health to reach even the most remote patients. Dr. Wood has received multiple DoD research grants in the areas of digital health, digital therapeutics, telehealth, and military operational medicine. He has published more than 60 articles and abstracts. 

At Equideum Health, Dr. Wood will lead the company’s initiatives to deliver privacy-preserving decentralized clinical trials capabilities as an element of the company’s forthcoming Data Integrity and Learning Networks (DILNs) and their various implementations. VICI is a DILN that is focused on the wellbeing of veterans, and Health Utility Grids (HUGs) are geographically defined, municipally scaled networks that focus on underserved and other specific populations.

DILNs will initially address chronic pain points associated with clinical trials matching, which often fail to recruit requisite numbers of qualified trial subjects in a timely fashion. As a founding member of the Decentralized Trials & Research Alliance (DTRA), Equideum Health has a particular focus on developing tools to enhance and harness the value of decentralized clinical trials.

“It is impossible to imagine a more qualified individual than Dr. Wood for these key leadership positions at Equideum Health, particularly as we advance innovations such as decentralized trials, adaptive trials, pragmatic trials, and what we refer to as Real-Time Real-World Evidence (RT-RWE)^TM” says Heather Leigh Flannery, Founder & CEO of Equideum Health. “I am thrilled to welcome Dr. Wood to our world-class leadership team and have full confidence he will truly make a difference for the communities our DILNs will serve, beginning with the VICI DILN.”

Dr. Wood will leverage his deep experience in clinical research and its associated regulatory complexity to implement accelerated matching processes based on a decentralized approach, built on top of the company’s Elevated Compute^TM platform, which incorporates privacy-preserving Ice Lake-generation SGX technology from Intel within Microsoft Azure Confidential Computing. By introducing self-sovereign data and fine-grained consents for its sharing and usage, clinical trials can readily scale beyond the geographic boundaries of individual hospital systems.

“It is a great honor to work with the innovative team under the visionary leadership of Ms. Flannery. As a multigenerational military veteran whose family members served the nation in every conflict dating back to the war of 1812, I’m inspired to be in a position to help improve veterans’ health and access to care through the VICI initiative. Applying new technologies developed by Equideum Health to the clinical trials space will rapidly accelerate lifesaving treatments in ways that have not been possible in the past,” says Dr. Wood.

In his leadership position for VICI, Dr. Wood will translate his first-hand knowledge of the health needs of service members and their dependents to the uniquely complex needs of veterans, their families, and caregivers. His big picture understanding of the major health and wellness issues facing veterans and empathy for their privacy in personal health will inform the operational model for VICI. These attributes, combined with robust assessment of health outcomes, will ensure the program truly improves outcomes for individuals.

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About Equideum Health

Equideum Health (formerly ConsenSys Health), a ConsenSys Mesh portfolio company and ConsenSys partner, builds Web3 person-centered healthcare and research networks called Data Integrity and Learning Networks (DILNs). DILNs feature self-sovereign identity, fine-grained verifiable consents, advanced privacy preservation and decentralized data liquidity across enterprise and individual data silos. DILNs are implementations of the company’s Elevated Compute^TM platform, powered by Ethereum, tokenization, decentralized artificial intelligence (AI), and confidential computing. Equideum Health’s DILNs prioritize populations with uniquely complex healthcare needs and aim to improve population health and clinical outcomes by impacting access, equity, quality, personalization, engagement and empowerment. 

A founding member of the Decentralized Trials & Research Alliance (DTRA), Equideum Health is innovating in the field of privacy-preserving clinical trials matching, e-consent, and precision medicine applications. As an active participant in multiple Linux Foundation organizations, the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance and IEEE SA Open initiatives, Equideum Health is driving standards development and harmonization efforts necessary for the success of healthcare public-private partnerships in a Web3 world. 

Learn more about our vision, offerings and accomplishments at equideumhealth.net. 

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“Think of blockchain as an underlying technology that supports everything. It’s a ledger of knowing what happened, and when, and being able to prove that and have a history of auditable actions. That’s what blockchain does, it’s a full history that you can trace,” said Debbie Bucci, current chief data officer at Equideum Health during a phone call with The Well News.

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As Equideum Health, the company will build on significant recent momentum. This includes the release of its decentralized and privacy-preserving Elevated Compute^TM platform and the integration of self-sovereign identity, blockchain-based verifiable credentials, and fine-grained individual data consents through the acquisition of FHIR®Blocks^{SM 1} to underpin its innovative Data Integrity and Learning Network (DILN) business model. DILNs, which use the unique combination of public and private blockchain, tokenization, decentralized artificial intelligence (AI), and confidential computing enabled by the company’s Elevated Compute^TM platform, are foundational to its partner-aligned strategy to make healthcare more effective, personalized, accessible, affordable and equitable.  

Partnerships already announced include an alliance with Dixon Center for Military and Veterans Services to launch the VICI (Veterans Incentivized Coordination and Integration) DILN focused on the uniquely-complex needs of veterans, their families, and caregivers. Linux Foundation Public Health will play a key role in VICI by optimizing the company’s intensive use of open source software through facilitating representation of the interests of United States Federal, State and municipal public health authorities. Through a second collaboration with the Digital Health Institute for Transformation, Equideum Health will create a new class of municipally-scaled utilities serving geographically-defined populations via Health Utility Grids (HUGs), targeting the urgent needs of underserved and vulnerable populations, first.

“Equideum Health has an ambitious mission to unleash the power of trusted, responsible AI in healthcare to speed clinical innovation, drive health equity, and accelerate the transformation from paying for volume to paying for value,” says Heather Leigh Flannery, Equideum Health’s Founder and Chief Executive Officer. “In particular, through our DILN go-to-market approach we will be a leading enabler of a new, ethically-intentional healthcare and life sciences data economy that is financially inclusive of the data subjects and advances the spirit and intent of privacy legislation and regulation globally.”

Core to Equideum Health’s DILN strategy is a continuation of its close partnership with its founding partner, ConsenSys Software Inc., also known as ConsenSys, the leading Ethereum software company. The partnership leverages Ethereum’s leadership position as a global, neutral public blockchain infrastructure, supporting the world’s largest Decentralized Finance (DeFi) and Non-Fungible Token (NFT) Web3 communities. ConsenSys’s focus on delivering enterprise-grade scalability via ConsenSys Rollups in partnership with Mastercard, and its expansion of blockchain capabilities on Microsoft Azure via the Quorum Blockchain Service, are examples fundamental to Equideum Health’s approach to addressing the needs of the nearly $12 trillion global healthcare industry². Mesh’s leadership in the Baseline Protocol community, securing public blockchain off-chain transactional workflows requiring cryptographically-verifiable privacy and integrity, is also core to the company’s technological approach. 

“The paradigm shift towards a world running on decentralized protocols is in full gear. The pace of adoption is now so rapid, we’ve more than doubled many of our core metrics in the past calendar quarter,” notes Joseph Lubin, Founder and CEO of ConsenSys & Mesh and Co-Creator of Ethereum, who will continue to serve on the company’s Board of Directors. “I am proud of ConsenSys Health’s achievements in this industry vertical and excited about the company’s new identity, Equideum Health, supporting very distinct, compelling ideas. I look forward to the value ConsenSys and Equideum Health can continue to create together with additional Mesh portfolio companies.” 

Equideum Health will roll out DILNs serving diverse communities in the coming months. The company will announce further product, partner, and corporate details in the first half of 2022.

¹ FHIR® is the registered trademark of HL7 and is used with the permission of HL7. Use of the FHIR trademark does not constitute endorsement of this product by HL7.

² Source: Healthcare Global Market Opportunities and Strategies To 2022, ResearchandMarkets.com.

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About Equideum Health

Equideum Health, a ConsenSys Mesh portfolio company and ConsenSys partner, builds Web3 person-centered healthcare and research networks called Data Integrity and Learning Networks (DILNs). DILNs feature self-sovereign identity, fine-grained verifiable consents, advanced privacy preservation and decentralized data liquidity across enterprise and individual data silos. DILNs are implementations of the company’s Elevated Compute^TM platform, powered by Ethereum, tokenization, decentralized artificial intelligence (AI), and confidential computing. Equideum Health’s DILNs prioritize populations with uniquely complex healthcare needs and aim to improve population health and clinical outcomes by impacting access, equity, quality, personalization, engagement and empowerment. 

A founding member of the Decentralized Trials & Research Alliance (DTRA), Equideum Health is innovating in the field of privacy-preserving clinical trials matching, e-consent, and precision medicine applications. As an active participant in multiple Linux Foundation organizations, the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance and IEEE SA Open initiatives, Equideum Health is driving standards development and harmonization efforts necessary for the success of healthcare public-private partnerships in a Web3 world. 

Learn more about our vision, offerings and accomplishments at equideumhealth.net. 

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About ConsenSys

ConsenSys is the leading Ethereum software company. We enable developers, enterprises, and people worldwide to build next-generation applications, launch modern financial infrastructure, and access the decentralized web. Our product suite, composed of Infura, Quorum, Codefi, MetaMask, Truffle, Diligence and our NFT platform, serves millions of users, supports billions of blockchain-based queries for our clients, and has handled billions of dollars in digital assets. Ethereum is the largest programmable blockchain in the world, leading in business adoption, developer community, and DeFi activity. On this trusted, open source foundation, we are building the digital economy of tomorrow. To explore our products and solutions, visit http://consensys.net/.

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About ConsenSys Mesh

Founded in 2015 by Ethereum co-founder Joseph Lubin, ConsenSys Mesh is an accelerator and incubator of blockchain technology solutions. Their mission is to champion global adoption and awareness of groundbreaking technologies in Web 3.0 and DeFi.

Mesh includes a portfolio of 190+ equity and token positions, runs the Tachyon startup accelerator, operates an R&D team making meaningful contributions to the Ethereum ecosystem, and has successfully incubated companies such as Gitcoin, Decrypt, Treum, ConsenSys Software Inc., and more. This interconnected network is a place for the next generation of blockchain technologies to take shape and great entrepreneurs to flourish.

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Bucci previously served as the health IT vendor’s technical director of patient-mediated and institutional data exchange. In her new role, she will lead the company’s data quality, data governance, master data management, and information strategy initiatives.

More specifically, Bucci’s team will oversee the collection, analysis, protection, use, and exchange of confidential health information to accelerate the industry’s move toward the vision of the learning health system.

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Bucci has served as the company’s Technical Director, Patient-Mediated and Institutional Data Exchange since its venture-backed spin-off from larger blockchain concern, ConsenSys, on March 2nd, 2020. In her new CDO role, she will lead the company’s efforts related to data quality, data governance, master data management, information strategy, and data science. In particular, Bucci’s team will oversee the collection, analysis, protection, use, and dissemination of confidential health information processed by ConsenSys Health in its aim to accelerate the industry’s advancement toward the learning health system vision.

Bucci has decades of experience in the healthcare information technology space, including most recently at the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), where she served as Branch Chief, Privacy and Security Office of Technology, Standards Division. An early visionary in the blockchain space, while at ONC Bucci was a prime mover behind the 2016 white paper challenge that helped launch this worldwide industry.

Before ONC, Bucci held leadership positions at the United States National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). At NIST, she was a Program Advisor for the National Strategies for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC) Program Office. While at NIH, her key contributions included serving as Program Lead for the Integration Services Center, an interoperable middleware initiative that provided integration services between financial and grant systems in support of the broader life science research community.  Bucci was also the Program Manager for NIH iTrust, the first fully-federated gateway validation and single sign-on (SSO) service in the United States Federal government. NIH iTrust was an acclaimed Federal service, a winner of the NIH Director’s Award, the InfoWeek Top 20 Federal Innovators Award, and the Kantara Identity Deployment of the Year (IDDY) Award.

“I am passionate about extending my professional experience with health data integration and interoperability to enable a next generation industry data architecture. We are at an inflection point where it is impossible to ignore data decentralization approaches. As such, we have the opportunity to create a new, more equitable and inclusive data economy that benefits public and private healthcare and life science enterprises and patients everywhere,” says Debbie Bucci, now CDO at ConsenSys Health.

The CDO role is an emerging executive leadership role where a key function is to govern the usage of health information. CDOs manage how healthcare provider and payer organizations access data, harmonize data definitions across data models, identify and integrate new data sources, and work to ensure the healthcare delivery system as a whole continuously improves data availability, quality and integrity. 

At the United States Federal level, the importance of the CDO role has been recognized through the creation by statute of the Federal Data Council via the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act of 2018. Drawing on her extensive public sector experience, Bucci will play a key role engaging with the Council and its agency members to elevate and clarify long-standing healthcare information issues due for reconsideration in the rapidly advancing decentralized technology paradigm, such as patient privacy assurance, self-sovereign identity, transaction-specific fine-grained consent and delegations of authority, automation of data standardization and normalization, verifying AI training data provenance and AI explainability, federated-first decentralized data architectures, and more.

“It is my honor to recognize Debbie’s substantive contributions to the industry and to ConsenSys Health and to further empower her in this strategic new role. Her tremendous range of experience at HHS and NIST, including her work with the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) and other aspects of the 21st Century Cures Act, makes her uniquely qualified to inform our continuously evolving offerings at the intersection of multiple families of emerging technology and health data. This is ultimately about unblocking each patient’s ability to create personalized clinical value through the privacy-preserving aggregation, curation, and monetization of decentralized self-sovereign data. This is a primary function of our Data Integrity and Learning Networks (DILNs), beginning with the Veterans Incentivized Coordination and Integration (VICI) DILN, undertaken in partnership with Dixon Center for Military and Veterans Services and the Linux Foundation Public Health,” adds Heather Leigh Flannery, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of ConsenSys Health.

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About ConsenSys Health

ConsenSys Health, a ConsenSys Mesh portfolio company, is building next generation critical infrastructure for healthcare and life sciences. Their Elevated Compute™ platform, leveraging decentralized AI, blockchain and confidential computing, is implemented to form Data Integrity and Learning Networks (DILNs)™ that address chronic industry pain points. A founding member of the Decentralized Trials & Research Alliance (DTRA), ConsenSys Health is focused on privacy-preserving clinical trials matching, e-consent, and precision medicine applications. They partner with advocacy groups to prioritize enhancing the wellbeing of underserved populations. Consensyshealth.com.

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The collaboration includes the creation of an LFPH-hosted Veterans Affairs Steering Committee focusing initially on  current and contemplated open source software components to power VICI. Under the leadership of ConsenSys Health and the non-profit Dixon Center for Military and Veterans Services, the VICI (Veterans Incentivized Coordination and Integration) initiative is convening a consortium of enterprise and public sector stakeholders to focus on the healthcare needs of veterans, their families and caregivers. 

LFPH is the premier home for the development of open source software and digital services that serve the world’s public health technology and infrastructure needs. LFPH works with federal agencies, public health authorities, healthcare organizations, technology vendors, academia, industry associations, and the public to ensure their investments into tech meet common needs and have maximum impact, leading to a sustainable and broad commercial ecosystem around shared software and digital services.

ConsenSys Health’s Elevated Compute™ platform extensively leverages open source software.  Elevated Compute will enable VICI to coordinate across the organizational boundaries of VICI members via blockchain, decentralized artificial intelligence, and confidential computing, aiming to optimize delivery of health services for improved outcomes while ensuring veterans have fine-grained control over their health and health-relevant data. Via its Veterans Affairs Steering Committee, LFPH will provide strategic guidance on aligning open source technologies with the requirements of the public health community in its work to better support the health and wellbeing of veterans and their families.

“ConsenSys Health has been a proud member of a number of Linux Foundation organizations for some time and we are building on many open source software assets, such as Hyperledger Besu. We are incredibly excited to partner with LFPH to coordinate and accelerate the VICI initiative’s participation across the Linux Foundation Confidential Computing Consortium, the Hyperledger Foundation, the Open Source Security Foundation, and more,” says Heather Leigh Flannery, ConsenSys Health’s Founder and Chief Executive Officer.

“Those on the frontlines of public health and healthcare understand how imperative timely, actionable data is to the success of their operations and the pursuit of community wellness. Our collaboration with LFPH will help benchmark privacy and dignity-preserving open source software that facilitate health equity for veterans, their families, and communities,” says Pierre Vigilance, MD, MPH, Vice President of Population Health and Social Impact at ConsenSys Health. 

“As a veteran, and someone who has worked in support of veterans, I’m honored that Linux Foundation has the opportunity to collaborate with this project,” says Jim St. Clair, Executive Director, Linux Foundation Public Health. “The VA has a long and successful history pioneering open source in healthcare and we’re excited to have the chance to build upon that to address the new dynamics of care for fellow veterans.”

“ConsenSys Health uses open source as foundational components in its platform and products to tap into thriving global communities of contributors. These contributors provide the spark of innovation that future standards and capabilities are built upon,” notes Chris Madison, Technical Director for VICI and Chief Information Security Officer at ConsenSys Health. “As a veteran myself, it is an honor to support my peers, and I thank the open source community for providing decentralized technology innovation to help make VICI a reality.”

For further information on the LFPH Veterans Affairs Steering Committee, LFPH’s collaboration with ConsenSys Health, and the VICI initiative, please plan to attend a free educational webinar on “How Open Source Software Benefits Veterans’ Healthcare Initiatives” on January 11th, 2022. Register for the webinar at  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/how-open-source-benefits-veterans-healthcare-initiatives-tickets-228444131547.

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About ConsenSys Health

ConsenSys Health, a ConsenSys Mesh portfolio company, is building next generation critical infrastructure for healthcare and life sciences. Their Elevated Compute™ platform leverages decentralized AI, blockchain and confidential computing to accelerate the deployment of applications that address chronic industry pain points. A founding member of the Decentralized Trials & Research Alliance, ConsenSys Health is focused on privacy-preserving clinical trials matching, e-consent, and precision medicine applications. They partner with advocacy groups to prioritize enhancing the wellbeing of underserved populations. equideumhealth.net.

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About Linux Foundation Public Health

Linux Foundation Public Health (LFPH) hosts, supports, and nurtures open source technology for the benefit of worldwide Public Health initiatives. We identify promising technologies to grow them into sustainable projects supported by a diverse community of thousands of technologists, public health experts, academics, members, and volunteers across the globe. Over a dozen jurisdictions around the world rely on LFPH’s exposure notification and vaccination credentials codebases to fight COVID-19 and safely reopen their communities.

LFPH is part of the nonprofit Linux Foundation. For more information, please visit lfph.io.

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VICI will convene a consortium of enterprise stakeholders to focus on the unique healthcare needs of veterans, their families and caregivers. ConsenSys Health’s Elevated Compute^TM platform will enable coordination across the organizational boundaries of these stakeholders, optimizing delivery of health services for improved outcomes while ensuring veterans have fine-grained control over their health and health-relevant data.

Importantly, VICI will introduce a new mechanism for either remuneration or donation if veterans choose to provide fine-grained consent for use of their data, such as for academic or clinical research. VICI’s provisioning of decentralized federated AI-driven predictive capabilities, as well as privacy-preserving matching for clinical trials, will support veterans’ health and accelerate the potential of creating and delivering innovative precision therapies.

Elevated Compute combines ConsenSys Health’s proprietary and open source technologies, including federated machine learning, blockchain and confidential computing, with software to coordinate verifiable fine-grained consent via the company’s recent acquisition of FHIRBlocks. VICI is the first implementation of Elevated Compute as a Data Integrity and Learning Network (DILN). Additional DILNs are being organized to address the needs of specific patient populations, to advance research and care delivery around specific disease states or conditions, and to serve the needs of specific geographic areas via Health Utility Grids (HUGs).

According to Heather Leigh Flannery, Founder and CEO of ConsenSys Health, “Currently in the United States, veterans’ health is negatively impacted by the highly fragmented nature of healthcare delivery and breakdowns during care transitions. The VICI initiative will match, orchestrate, optimize, and personalize veterans-facing health and social services, empowering participating veterans and their families at the center of a newly integrated ecosystem.”

“Dixon Center for Military and Veterans Services is focused on the long-term wellbeing of our veterans and their families through our primary pillars of ‘Work with Purpose, Heal with Honor, Live with Hope,’” says Colonel Sam Whitehurst, US Army (Retired), Dixon Center Vice President, Programs and Services. “Through our partnership with ConsenSys Health on the VICI initiative, we are bringing some of the most cutting-edge technology to bear to enhance this mission and to prioritize veterans and their families in receiving the benefits of these advances.”

“Global Blockchain Ventures is proud to be the lead investor in VICI and emphatically supports its mission to rapidly improve the health outcomes of our nation’s veterans. We are excited by its use of ‘A-B-C’ — AI, Blockchain and Cybersecurity for Privacy. We see the strong potential of the technology platform underpinning VICI to address other chronic healthcare pain points globally. Our combined, strategic public-private partnership model with other investors, nonprofits and public programs will help turn that potential into reality,” says David Metcalf, PhD, General Partner & Managing Director at Global Blockchain Ventures.

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About ConsenSys Health

ConsenSys Health, a ConsenSys Mesh portfolio company, is building next generation critical infrastructure for healthcare and life sciences. Their Elevated Compute^TM platform leverages decentralized AI, blockchain and confidential computing to accelerate the deployment of applications that address chronic industry pain points. A founding member of the Decentralized Trials & Research Alliance, ConsenSys Health is focused on privacy-preserving clinical trials matching, e-consent, and precision medicine applications. They partner with advocacy groups to prioritize enhancing the wellbeing of underserved populations. equideumhealth.net.

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About Dixon Center for Military and Veterans Services

Dixon Center is a resource for individuals, organizations, and communities interested in the long-term wellbeing of our veterans and their families. We use influence, ideas, and actions to assist direct service providers transform the lives of service members, veterans, and their families, ensuring they reach their full potential. dixoncenter.org.
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About Global Blockchain Ventures

GBV is a blockchain technology focused venture capital fund, specializing in blockchain enabled applications within synergistic technology platforms including Internet of Things, MedTech, and Artificial Intelligence. GBV sees blockchain technology (DLT) as a fascinating foundational technology that will spur innovation and advancements across all industries. Blockchain technology, in many cases, is not a competitor to existing technology but rather a structural, beneficial stimulant that will ultimately converge with other technology. GBV’s mission is to fund and support the most disruptive and promising projects that demonstrate and offer practical blockchain enabled solutions that benefit the global economy.

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HUGs are a new class of public utility for communities that incentivize health engagement for every citizen. By enabling fine-grained consent for either remunerated or donated analytical use of data at rest, or data exchange, HUGs aim to make healthcare more accessible, affordable and equitable.

ConsenSys Health is building next-generation technology infrastructure to support a secure, private data locker for each citizen that improves interoperability between local healthcare providers and resources and enables personalization of health services and ultimately, better health outcomes.

“Anyone with a smartphone will be able to collect and curate their health and health-relevant data securely — without that data being merged into a large data lake or data warehouse. Transactions will be subject to the fine-grained consent of the data subject, with either compensation or quantified donation for the analytical use of their data by local and global stakeholders such as healthcare providers and clinical researchers,” according to Heather Leigh Flannery, Founder and CEO of ConsenSys Health. “Each interoperable HUG is powered by ConsenSys Health’s Elevated Compute^TM platform, a unique convergence of blockchain, artificial intelligence, and advanced privacy-preserving technologies enabling analytical models to compute on decentralized data at rest. The self-sovereign identities provisioned by HUGs are the first critical step towards realizing self-sovereign data, which will enable the use of trusted AI to aid communities in matching resources to individual needs.”

According to Michael Levy, CEO of DHIT, “ConsenSys Health solves one of the most critical problems facing equitable healthcare today –  a transparent, unbiased, individually-owned and protected health data infrastructure capable of being the next major public utility, no different than gas, water, or electricity. One of the most costly issues facing society today is the lack of access to real-time, real-world data pertaining to drivers of health, and the lack of shared insights from that data between healthcare providers and community services. Partnering with ConsenSys Health accelerates DHIT’s vision and gives the communities we serve the best chance of a future where caring for ourselves and our communities powers a new Caring Economy. Our shared vision is to give every community around the world a HUG.”

“Healthcare is decentralizing, so why not decentralize the data that drives it?” asks Pierre Vigilance, MD, MPH, Vice President of Population Health and Social Impact at ConsenSys Health. “Our platform provides the next generation infrastructure to make that possible, enabling vulnerable populations to permit their health data (clinical and non-clinical) to be shared with a range of health and human service partners. We see this as critical to the process of removing the barriers to health and providing the infrastructure necessary for communities to thrive. Operationally, HUGs will provide innovative health promotion tools designed and co-created with underserved populations by default, putting them at the front of the line and disrupting the traditional practice of innovating for affluent populations first.”

More announcements on the first HUGs will be made in Q1, 2022.

About ConsenSys Health

ConsenSys Health is building next-generation critical infrastructure for healthcare and life sciences. Their Elevated Compute^TM platform leverages decentralized AI, blockchain and confidential computing to accelerate the deployment of applications that address chronic industry pain points. A founding member of the Decentralized Trials & Research Alliance, ConsenSys Health is focused on privacy-preserving clinical trials matching, e-consent, and precision medicine applications. They partner with advocacy groups to prioritize enhanced well-being of veterans and underserved populations. Consensyshealth.com

About the Digital Health Institute for Transformation (DHIT)

DHIT is a non-profit education and research institute supporting communities through the process of digital health transformation. They collaborate with leading academic institutions, associations, and industry on a mission to maximize health in underserved communities across the nation and beyond by providing equal access to global advancements in care. dhitglobal.org

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Matching patients to clinical trials they are eligible for has been a major challenge for everyone from pharmaceutical companies to hospitals.

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