Hashed Health adds Accenture as member of Blockchain Consortium

Hashed Health announced at the Distributed: Health 2017 conference the addition of Accenture as a member of its Blockchain Consortium.

The Hashed Health Blockchain Consortium is a group of top health firms centered on fast-tracking innovation with blockchain and distributed ledger technologies.

Hashed Health CEO John Bass said in a press release the firm sent to CoinReport, “Accenture adds a broad range of expertise to the Consortium workgroup and will help clients improve performance and create sustainable value.

“Their global viewpoint and experience with large scale deployments brings a unique perspective to our decentralization initiatives. In turn, Accenture will benefit from the consortium’s efforts to advance market intelligence and industry best practices.”

As a member of the consortium, Accenture will center its efforts on creating industry use cases for distributed ledger and blockchain technologies and find opportunities where corporations can implement solutions at scale.

Brian Kalis, managing director of digital health at Accenture, commented in the release we received, “While adoption grows, healthcare organizations must continue advancing the application of blockchain technologies to achieve and sustain meaningful progress.

“We believe that Hashed Health’s workgroup-centered model will allow companies to collaboratively tackle existing problems in healthcare while establishing best practices.”

Hashed Health logo – Via a previous Business Wire press release