Innovation and Challenges with Decentralized Payments and Smart Contracts

The session will address what and who the stakeholders are in healthcare, and how smart contracts can be deployed in decentralized payment system in healthcare, types of platforms that can be deployed, the structure of private blockchains, what the best public platforms for smart contracts with payments are, and if scalable, technological limitations. In addition, best case implementations ,where smart contracts are deployed , specifically, with healthcare payments and reimbursements.

Heather Flannery (Moderator), ConsenSys Health, Health Circle Global Lead

https://consensys.net/

Heather Leigh Flannery is the Health Circle Global Lead at ConsenSys and the Co-Founder and Board Chair of Blockchain in Healthcare Global ("BiHG"), a new 501(c)6 trade association organized under the IEEE ISTO launching in Q4 2018. She chairs the IEEE SA P2418.6 Standards Development Working Group (blockchain in healthcare and life sciences) and serves as the FY19 Co-Chair of the global HIMSS Blockchain in Healthcare Task Force. Ms. Flannery is also an Innovation Fellow at EP3 Foundation, has served as Industry Faculty for the United States Department of Health and Human Services Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (US HHS ONC) and is an active consultant, advisor, and keynote speaker.

Avinash Burra, Digital Asset, Product Manager

https://digitalasset.com/

Avinash Burra is the Healthcare Product Lead at Digital Asset, the leading provider of distributed ledger solutions to financial services and other highly regulated markets. Based in New York, Avinash works with large healthcare providers, payers, and clearinghouses to redesign common business processes that can benefit from using distributed ledger technology (DLT) to streamline multi-party workflows. He brings a wealth of experience working in healthcare and financial services and expertise in advanced distributed ledger solutions, such as the Digital Asset distributed ledger platform and smart contract modeling language, DAML.

Combiz Richard Abdolrahimi, Deloitte, Former U.S. Treasury Senior Policy Advisor

https://linkedin.com/in/abdolrahimi/

Combiz Richard Abdolrahimi is a national security lawyer, banking and financial services, public policy and strategic regulatory expert, and until recently, he served as Senior Policy Advisor and Project Manager at the United States Department of the Treasury. In this role, he developed and coordinated financial regulatory reform and policy development and analysis in several areas including new and emerging technologies (FinTech), identity, innovation, financial inclusion, de-risking, risk management, big data, privacy, and payments. Combiz is a recognized authority in the policies, laws, and regulations of FinTech, RegTech, cryptocurrencies, blockchain technology, machine learning, and artificial intelligence.

Jim Kyung-Soo Liew, Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, Assistant Professor of Finance

https://carey.jhu.edu/faculty-research/faculty-directory/jim-kyung-soo-liew-phd

Dr. Jim Kyung-Soo Liew is an Assistant Professor of Finance at Johns Hopkins Carey Business School and revels in pushing the boundaries of financial knowledge and product development both as an academic and FinTech Data Scientist. He has published pioneering research in the intersection of social media big data and financial markets.