Blockchain Decentralizing Electronic Medical Records
Date and Time
Thursday Apr 26, 2018
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM CDT
Thursday, April 26, 2018 from 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM (CDT)
Location
Vanderbilt Wond'ry 2414 Highland Avenue, Suite 102 Nashville, TN 37210
Fees/Admission
Free
Contact Information
kip@zyllion.co
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Description
Come meet Nashville's brightest minds in the blockchain space as they talk about how they are using blockchain to shape how we share our personal health records with medical practitioners. The event will feature Tom Nguyen, CEO of Emrify, a Nashville based blockchain startup that has built a decentralized Personal Heath Record platform on top of Ethereum public blockchain to deliver trusted health information to the right hands at the right time anywhere in the world. He will be joined by Dr. Jim Jirjis, Chief Health Information Officer(CHIO) at HCA. Before joining HCA, Dr. Jirjis led the creation of electronic medical records web portal at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He was also an assistant professor at Vanderbilt’s biomedical and informatics department. Dr. Jirjis has over 25 years of experience in the field of medicine.