Bio: Jaya Tripathi is a principal scientist and an advanced analytics expert at The MITRE Corporation. Since joining MITRE in 2004, she has been applying multidisciplinary methods including visualization, graph analytic, and predictive modeling techniques on large longitudinal datasets and has invented tools to assist with opioid management decision-making, actionable tools that identify prescriber fraud schemes. Some of her other research has covered Bitcoin blockchain forensics, physician credentialing, patient consents in electronics health records, surveillance of anti-viral drugs, and telemedicine. She is currently working on building a drug track-and-trace system for the pharmaceutical supply chain using blockchain and other distributed computing technologies. In a separate effort, she is also developing a policy simulator studying MAT-related policies.

Research Focus: We address challenges in the pharmaceutical supply chain, including complex requirements stemming from the Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA), requiring the creation by 2023 of an interoperable traceability system for products at the package level. We are working on a framework that includes governance and technical models and represents product and information flow through the supply chain. Employing emerging technologies, we are building a working prototype based on the framework. The technologies include the use of distributed applications (smart contracts) on the Ethereum blockchain platform to standardize the interactions and to enforce rules dictated by the regulatory and industry requirements, distributed data storage, mechanisms decentralized identity, and visibility standards.

Bio: Cameron Boozarjomehri is a Software Engineer currently specializing in Blockchain Research and Privacy Engineering. In FY19 Cameron was awarded funding to pursue research targeted at “Blockchain Backed Proxy Management”; the opportunity to leverage blockchain when creating portable reusable relationships between user identities. Though the current research is focused on a treasury use case, he sees opportunity to branch this application to multiple sectors where Proxy Authorization plays a primary role, particularly the medical field. His FY20 work intends to expand on his current research with hopes of creating a user centric experience across all government services.

Research Focus: In the healthcare and health insurance space, Proxy Management is an integral part of healthcare. We have been actively considering the Medical power of Attorney Use Case for our work and have been designing a solution that we feel is both system and sector agnostic. We are using blockchain to provide verified delegation of authority between citizens and their proxies, and we see clear overlap with the healthcare sector. We are investigating different architectures that will allow people to create and manage relationships in one place and have those relationships map across BFS services. We believe Blockchain is the most promising technology to facilitate this and have built a prototype using the Tendermint Blockchain. The current prototype blends blockchain and traditional Web Application architectures so that individual services are still responsible for managing their own permissions and functional elements, while proxy management and data propagation are facilitated by the Blockchain.

Bio: Chris Buchanan is MITRE’s Capability Area Lead for Digital Identity. For the past five years, Chris’ focus at MITRE has been on digital identity and how it can be protected or exploited. Chris has spearheaded MITRE’s research in the nascent area of Self-Sovereign Identity and was instrumental in establishing MITRE as a Sovereign Steward. Starting 1 October 2019, Chris will lead a MITRE research project to build the first government-run Self-Sovereign Identity system for the state of Maryland.

Research Focus: Self-Sovereign Identity improves the identity ecosystem by making users peers with platforms. In doing so it makes digital identity globally portable, increases levels of security, enables peer-to-peer encrypted communication, vastly reduces the return on investment for digital identity theft and fraud, and provides a framework for regulatory support to privacy and enforcement of human rights in the digital age.

Bio: Michael Arendt, Ph.D. is a subject matter expert in innovative acquisition and contracting strategies across the Federal Government and currently serves on the acquisition team at Department of Defense's Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC). Over the past 13+ years he has authored and co-authored numerous studies and reports including Smart Contracts in the Federal Government - Leveraging Blockchain Technology to Revolutionize Acquisition, The MITRE Innovative Contracting Implementation Framework, The MITRE Challenged-Based Acquisition Handbook, From Incentive Prize and Challenge Competitions to Procurement, and Pushing the Acquisition Innovation Envelope at the Office of Naval Research. Dr. Arendt was a public-sector strategy & innovation consultant with IBM and a member of the research faculty at the University of Maryland’s Center for Public Policy and Private Enterprise. He holds his Ph.D. in Policy Studies from the University of Maryland, College Park.

Research Focus: Across the government, the process of creating and enforcing contracts has not changed much in the past several decades. To this day, most government contracts require paperwork that must be routed across multiple parties, with physical signatures attested to by key personnel, and further rely on 3rd parties such as private contractors or other government organizations for enforcement and storage. This results in a slow, opaque process that lacks transparency, efficiency, and auditability. Despite this reality, major advancements in blockchain technology in recent years have opened a new door to greatly improving the traditional government contracting process via the use of blockchain enabled, smart contracts. Smart contracts have the potential to simplify many types of agreements (such as Government-Wide Acquisition Contracts and General Services Administration Schedules, among others) without the need for tedious paperwork and 3rd parties. They can objectify contracts and policies while also storing the provenance of the information on a globally decentralized database.

Bio: Tatyana is the founder and CEO of Open Health Network. Prior to this she was a senior executive at PwC Management Consulting practice and also held C-level roles at a number of startups. Tatyana has been recognized as one of the top 10 Influential Women in Healthcare IT in 2015 and by Forbes as one of the top 50 women-led startup in tech founders. She is a mentor at 500Startups and Richard Branson Entrepreneurs Centre and serves on boards for private companies. Tatyana has been featured in the White House blog , spoke at the United Nations, presented at the first White House Demo Day, did a TEDx talk; keynoted at WEBIT, WSIS and other international conferences.

Industry Innovations: PatientSphere by Open Health Network gives patients the power to pull data from electronic medical records, mobile health applications, wearable devices, chatbots, informatics programs like Apple HealthKit, Google Fit and others, into one secured dashboard, where it is easy to consult and share. PatinetSphere by Open Health Network consists of a HIPAA-compliant distributed database containing patient health data, along with a patient identity management and patient consent management layer powered by blockchain. De-Identified metadata stored in a metadata layer.

Healthcare providers can use PatientSphere to deliver experiences to patients that help them choose the best treatment, learn about their health, manage medications or allow certain information to be shared among providers, caregivers, family members via revocable consent from a patient. Health insurers can use the platform to convince members to adopt a healthier lifestyle by encouraging certain behaviours and providing incentives.

Bio: Cyrus Maaghul, CEO/Founder of Healthcombix LTD is a start-up and product development professional based in Nashville, Tennessee. He has over 20 years’ experience in launching technology product and services companies and helping develop systems and product strategy for start-up and large companies including PointNurse®, Digital River, Deloitte Consulting, Fidelity Investments, and Citibank. Cyrus’ blockchain thought leadership has been published in Coindesk.com, Nasdaq.com, Distributed, and the International Travel and Healthcare Insurance Journal. Healthcombix LTD is currently developing blockchain, machine learning, and smart contract based solutions to solve problems in the healthcare, insurance, and capital markets.

Industry Innovations:

1) HCXI - An insurance development platform leveraging blockchain, machine learning, and smart contracts to build risk products including a loss healthcare revenue and compliance optimization solution for ""no -show"" patients""

2) HCX PAY - A privacy coin network to facilitate private transactions for medical data exchange and payments

3) HealthChain (TM) - A self-sovereign data network for consumers to control access to their medical, insurance, and financial data.

Bio: Raj Sharma is co-founder and chief executive officer of Health Wizz, a secure mobile platform that provides consumers with the necessary tools for aggregating, organizing and sharing medical health records over the blockchain. Prior to co-founding Health Wizz, Raj served as president of KreateIoT, a blockchain healthcare platform acquired by Health Wizz in 2016. An accomplished executive, Raj has over 20 years of leadership experience. A passionate entrepreneur, he has extensive expertise in product and market identification, data management and distributed applications. He served as the chief operations officer and president at 3CLogic, a provider of cloud contact center solutions. While in this role he successfully envisioned and led the implementation of the first distributed cloud based telecom platform serving the enterprise market. Raj was instrumental in taking the platform from conception to commercial success with hundreds of loyal customers. He also served as the president and chief executive officer at NexTone communications, during which time NexTone's annual sales grew from $4M to $23M. Raj holds an M.B.A. degree from the Stern School of Business at N.Y.U. and a Master of Science Electrical Engineering and a Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology.

Industry Innovations: A blockchain-based platform to offer gamification incentives as part of a clinical trial protocol. Gamification incentives are ‘smart contracts’ between the participant and the institution conducting clinical trials. Participants earn digital rewards for completing a series of milestones on their mobile devices and are then able to instantly redeem those rewards for gift cards. ‘Smart contracts’ make gamification incentives more trustworthy, immutable, and traceable. Use of blockchain ensures platform’s resilience to ‘changing the rules of the game’ mid-stream as well as any incentives related data tampering. Additionally, blockhchain provides a traceable and useful audit trail of data for auditors and compliance personnel as a flexible cloud-based service for all members involved in clinical trial. Health Wizz advocates that a cloud-based clinical trial platform could offer an improvement in clinical trial management and could bolster trust and engagement because of contractual gamification incentives for participants.

Bio: Todd Chamberlain, co-founder and CEO of MedBlox Inc, spent the entirety of his professional career within the healthcare technology, clinical support and life sciences fields. Most recently Todd spent the last nine years at MediRevv, a revenue cycle management and managed services firm, where he acted as Compliance Official, Change Control Chair, & Head of the Technical Services, Infrastructure, Engineering, DevOps, Programming and Project Management Teams. His prior experience included positions directly supporting providers at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in a change control and clinical support team member & researchers at the University of Iowa Department of Biology in an engineering / lab support capacity. It is this non-traditional career progression that has given Todd a 360-degree view of the healthcare landscape, a unique insight into all healthcare’s represented stakeholders, the technical expertise, and an extremely motivated and talented team known for their ability to execute.

Industry Innovation: It is apparent that one of the most difficult industries to support in our country is healthcare. Data sharing, breaches, patient identity management, interoperability, and Artificial Intelligence have left a lasting mark on healthcare, but none of these technologies will reach full potential siloed-off and without national context. How can we simplify the landscape? How can we secure patient information now, plan for the future, and promote information sharing required for innovation? MedBlox is an Iowa health technology company, focused on password-less immutable patient identities based on proprietary behavioral models. MedBlox also facilitates online-to-offline patient engagement & a patient identity validation exchange (x-OPEx) that allows for patient matching and information requests. MedBlox provides a suite of technologies that allow patients to engage providers, suggest erroneous data corrections, share information, collate disparate record numbers and manage provider access. MedBlox adds value to care by removing the burden placed on providers when dealing with possession of health records and compliance, allowing providers to focus on continuity of care, improving quality of life, and empowering patients in active disease prevention. Overall, MedBlox is working to create huge improvements in the healthcare industry.