22 September - 21 October 2016
Advancing HealthTech for Humanity™
Virtual Blockchain Workshop
The IEEE Standards Association has partnered with precision medicine & patient-centric experts and platform providers to bring the first ever virtual blockchain workshop!
Collaborative Innovation. This virtual workshop welcomes healthcare practitioners, researchers, scientists, patient advocates, incentive designers, developers, students, and entrepreneurs interested in making an impact towards some of the real challenges in healthcare today. Workshop challenges focus on areas such as: patient anonymity, addressing the problem of counterfeit medicines, healthcare fraud and abuse, and other intriguing problems.
Empowering You. Intrigued by a problem and unsure about blockchain technologies? Interested in the technology and want to better understand how to think about one of the challenge questions? Don’t let that hold you back. Our platform providers will walk you through blockchain technology and provide basic training on how to use their platform. In addition, every problem statement has a committed expert to explain the problem in detail as well as offer to help address your topical questions.
Ready to Co-Create? Beginning September 26th, you’ll be able to register, access educational platform links and materials, use platforms and create! Participants will have until October 21st to co-create. Submissions will be evaluated 1 week before the most advanced solutions are highlighted at IEEE Computer Society’s The Rockstars of Emerging Technologies Event on November 2nd in the Silicon Beach area.
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What you need to participate
1. Access to a computer
2. Facebook / Twitter account(s) to connect with collaborators and develop virtual teams. (Also to post your brags.)
3. Slack account to connect with the community and receive any updates
How to participate
1: Register for the Virtual Workshop
2: Get access to the toolkits and review technical resources.
Connect with the community
1: LIKE the IEEE Standards Association Facebook.
2: Follow the IEEE Standards Association on Twitter.
3: POST / TWEET your brags using #IEEESA #AHT4H #VBlockchain
Where to go for help
1. Resources Page – Additional Resources
2. Open office hours will be made for participants to ask questions via problem statements in the Challenges.
3. Platform Provider Support (in Toolkit)
5. Go to the workshop’s Slack site and sign up using the same email address as you did to register: AHT4H_Virtual_Blockchain_Workshop
Other Events
Structured Data using Blockchain Technology, Session 1
29 September @ 11AM EDT
Time: Thursday, 29 September 2016 @ 11AM EDT Presenter: Josh Robinson – CTO YouBase Description: This workshop will introduce YouBase and how to use it to store structured data using blockchain technology. We will cover setting up a local development environment, storing data, and transferring data between platforms.
Structured Data using Blockchain Technology, Session 2
October 13 at 8 AM PDT
Date: Thursday, October 13, 2016 Time: 8 AM PDT / 11 AM EDT / 5 PM BST Presenter: Josh Robinson – CTO YouBase Description: This workshop will introduce YouBase and how to use it to store structured data using blockchain technology. We will cover setting up a local development environment, storing data, and transferring data between platforms…