Partners in Digital Health

What Elements of Blockchain Tech Can Healthcare Benefit from TODAY Without Committing to Decentralization Bart Cant - CTO, Tydei.io John Hatchell - Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Tydei.io Speakers discuss: The strategy for utilizing DAML for the purpose of progressive decentralization in enterprise Converging how TradFi was brought on chain to innovate healthcare payments Future strategie...

Open DLT for Patient Privacy Protection in the Age of Healthcare Consumerism Maria Palombini Director, Healthcare & LIfe Science Global Practice Lead, IEEE SA Sachin Shetty Associate Director , Virginia Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Center (VMASC), Old Dominion University, and Executive Director of the Center for Secure and Intelligent Critical Systems Daniel Harrell, PhD Research Associat...

Ajaz S. Hussain Strategic Advisor, Bright Path Laboratories, and BHTY Editor Michael Dershem CEO, Apierion Jim Nasr CEO, Acoer, and BHTY Editor John Riley III Chief of Emerging Tech, IMPACTIFI • Mohan Venkataraman Principal Consultant, Block10.ai We gathered the authors of BHTY’s “ 2026 Healthcare Predictions: AI, Blockchain, and the Rise of Decentralized Innovation ,” for a video and podcast conv...

Safe AI for Healthcare Jim Nasr CEO, Acoer Jelani Clarke, PhD Executive Lead at DeSci World, and Sales & Marketing Head at AminoChain Owais Durrani. MD Memorial Hermann Health System The Coalition for Decentralized Healthcare and Life Sciences (CDHLS) brought together three pioneers at the intersection of medicine and decentralized technology for a candid conversation about what safe AI means...

From Innovation to Evidence: Publish What You've Proven Paul Barach, PhD Principal, J. Bara Innovation; Chief Medical Officer, Pegwin, and THMT Associate Editor-in-Chief Sandeep Bhat, MSE Former Senior Leader, Digital Engagement, Global Clinical Operations, GSK; Principal, Visualized Ventures, and THMT Editor Liam William C. B. Harding, PhD Professor, Trine University, NSF Reviewer, Medtronic Dist...

Medical Device Cybersecurity Standards: Raising the Bar for Patient Safety Naomi Schwartz - Vice President, Regulatory Strategy, Medcrypt Elizabeth Baker, PhD - Professor of Information Systems at Virginia Commonwealth University, and THMT Academic & Research Integrity Oversight Maria Palombini - Director, Healthcare & Life Sciences Global Practice Lead, IEEE Standards Association As healt...

Publishing Where It Matters: A Candid Conversation Paul Barach, MD, MPH THMT Associate Editor; Thomas Jefferson University, Principal at J. Bara Innovation, and Chief Medical Officer, Pegwin https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7906-698X Dr. Suhail Chughtai, FRCS, FFLM Clinical Director of Orthopaedics & Trauma, M L Professionals, London, UK, and AI Division Head, United Kingdom Digital Health & Ca...

The Real Economics of Value Based Care Erik Johnson Senior Vice President and National Practice Lead, Value Based Care, Optum Lyle Berkowitz, MD Founder and Chairman, KeyCare and Editor-in-Chief, THMT Is value based care truly aligning incentives — or redistributing financial risk across payers, providers, and patients in ways that compress margins and shift burden? Is telehealth a costsaving leve...

Many organizations talk about the power of data but too few really understand the full potential. Utilizing a strategic framework that redefines the roles of collaboration and innovation, see how one organization built competitive differentiators by expanding upon the concept of a data analytics platform to create a data operating system and beyond enterprise analytics to facilitating an ecosystem...

The 30% Problem: Solving Pharmaceutical Waste with Blockchain With up to 30% of donated pharmaceutical aid products being diverted, stolen or going to waste in this session we will learn how blockchain technology is addressing some of the biggest trust challenges in the global supply chain. Supply chain issues may prevent people that are in greatest need of life-saving medicines from being treated...

Learn the latest developments, solutions and forward-looking approaches with blockchain technology for healthcare. How do panelists view healthcare delivery systems changing through blockchain-powered technology? What solutions are they spearheading along with new models of collaborations with which they are involved? The panel will highlight how blockchain is leveraged to transform health systems...

How Blockchain Elevates Health Solutions and Services Today and in the Future Kyle Culver Director, Emerging Technologies, Humana, and Co-Founder of the Synaptic Alliance The healthcare industry is beginning to see real value created from blockchain powered solutions. The presentation spotlights what value and impact is being created for early adopters. The speaker will share informed insights for...

The Decentralized Hospital: Breaking the Traditional Healthcare Model Dr. Sandeep Pulim Until recently, acute care technological innovations were centered on improvements in procedural interventions or critical care. Accelerated by the pandemic, there has been a shift and developing interest in bringing acute-level care into the home. As a result, more tech-enabled improvements are supporting dece...

The Interoperability Blueprint: Building the Rails for Nationwide Data Jim Markwith | Managing Partner, Markwith Law Dr. Christophe E. Jackson | Clinical Design Engineer, Gideon The goal of achieving nationwide patient access is getting closer to reality with the establishment of nationwide electronic healthcare record networks, and with the emergence of TEFCA. Interoperability and privacy standar...

Windows to the Mind: How Your Eyes Reveal Your Brain’s Secrets Sai Mattapalli - Vytal.ai , Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, Alexandria, Virginia, USA Rohan Kalahasty - Vytal.ai , Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, Alexandria, Virginia, USA In the past five years, artificial intelligence has revolutionized healthcare by enabling earlier detection, diagn...

Evaluating LLMs in Healthcare: A ConV2X Panel Discussion Sandeep Reddy, MBBS, MSc, PhD Director, MBA (Healthcare Management), Deakin School of Medicine, and Chairman, Medi-AI Alexandre Lebrun CEO, Nabla Adam Chee, PhD Chief, Smart Health Leadership Centre, Institute of Systems Science National University of Singapore Moderator: Dimitris Kalogeropoulos, PhD CEO, Global Health and Digital Innovation...

What Is DeSci: Challenges and Market Perceptions Authors Jelani Clarke, PhD Executive Lead, DeSci World, and Sales & Marketing Head at AminoChain Filippo Frangioni Product Manager, Novo Nordisk, and Head of Partnerships at Nordic Blockchain Association Jim Nasr CEO, Acoer Themes tackled include: The perception problem: Why does DeSci still sound like sci-fi to most scientists? Funding friction...

How Blockchain Brings Trust to the International Supply Chain and Healthcare Dan Purtell - Director of Innovation, British Standards Association With up to 30% of donated pharmaceutical aid products being diverted, stolen or going to waste in this session we will learn how blockchain technology is addressing some of the biggest trust challenges in the global supply chain. Supply chain issues may p...

Health Data Marketplace - Challenges, Possibilities, and the Path Forward Francisco Curbera, PhD , is Senior Vice President for Engineering and Research at Accrete.ai , Shahram Ebadollahi, PhD, MBA , is an entrepreneur, advisor, board member andcurrently provides strategic consultation to companies in the broad area of AI in enterprise. Olivier Elemento, PhD , is a tenured full professor of physio...

Cybersecurity and Healthcare Maria Palombini, MBA Director, Healthcare & Life Sciences Global Practice Lead, IEEE Standards Association Alex Romanovich, Moderator Founder and CEO, Global Edge Markets Healthcare cybersecurity incidents have become too common. In this episode, IEEE’s Maria Palombini breaks down why the explosion of connected medical technologies has intensified vulnerability — a...

Decentralized Identity Management (DIM) in Healthcare: Technologies and Use Cases Hear from those on the front lines implementing this technology successfully for healthcare clients. Learn where the state of business adoption and success stands. Listeners will gain an overall market education in the first of this series featuring Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust and companies demonstrating suc...

Jerry Cuomo Retired IBM Fellow and Distinguished Research Professor, North Carolina State University, USA This talk introduces Trustworthy Computing as a shift toward systems built on verifiable, transparent, and privacy-respecting foundations. Using blockchain and AI, it explores real-world impacts—from food safety and identity protection to AI transparency and machine unlearning—emphasizing the...

As artificial intelligence evolves from a supportive tool to an autonomous agent, the foundations of medical education face a seismic shift. In this THMT Podcast episode, we explore how agentic AI systems - capable of independent decision making, reasoning, and adaptive learning, is transforming how future physicians are trained, assessed, and accredited. What happens when core disciplines like pa...

Beyond Telehealth: Industry Leaders Discuss Building Scalable, Patient Centered Connected Care Solutions Todd Cornell President and CEO, MedWand Solutions, Inc Dr. Milton Chen CEO and Cofounder, VSee William C. B. Harding, PhD Professor, Trine University, NSF Reviewer, Distinguished Technical Fellow, Medtronic Prof. Jefferson G. Fernandes, MD, MSc, PhD, MBA - Moderator Director of Education for th...