Healthcare and pharma, all the benefits of blockchain and consortia

Chrissa McFarlane (Forbes) underlines the importance of consortia formed by various organizations, sometimes even competitors, to increase interoperability and bring more efficiency while maintaining a high level of privacy and security. In healthcare all the actors have the objective of reducing costs and improving the sharing of sensitive data. Even the pharmaceutical industry can take advantage of the blockchain because this technology can be used to improve traceability within the pharmaceutical supply chain. With a distributed ledger, both government agencies and private organizations could monitor the distribution of drugs at different stages.