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10 MOST Trusted The Healthcare IT Security Solution Providers 2018 vendors, and government agencies in the US and abroad. Hashed Labs is a team of blockchain healthcare product managers and engineering talent. They build product and work on innovative business models and governance structures. This team specializes in finding the sweet spot between a technical solution, an innovative business model, and a governance mechanism that makes a product come to life. Hashed Collective is an open community-building forum for healthcare organizations, consumers, entrepreneurs, and developers to talk about blockchain applications for healthcare. Collective includes meetups, podcasts, webinars, newsletters, online educational resources, and other innovative community- building tools to help broaden the community of blockchain healthcare advocates. These three areas of the company work in sync to support market-development activities alongside Hashed Health's products and partnerships. John Bass CEO & Founder at major healthcare and blockchain events by invitation from major healthcare players and governments. More than just a Technology Company The core team of Hashed Health has their background in healthcare, enabling the company to stay on the front lines of Health IT, payment models, and care delivery. They understand the problems and the obstacles in healthcare and sees blockchain as a way to fix them. Blockchain, for Hashed Health, is not a technology in search of a problem. If a problem can be solved without blockchain, the Hashed team will be the first to say so. As a company, it is also platform-agnostic – for each application and each use-case the team looks at all available blockchain platforms and tool sets and then works with the stakeholders to pick the best instance for the problem at hand. The firm’s values are intertwined with blockchain’s core characteristics – trust, collaboration, transparency, and incentive alignment. The Milestones in Its Journey to Success The company just celebrated it two-year anniversary. From local meet-ups to co-hosting the world’s premiere blockchain-focused healthcare conference, Hashed Health has successfully led blockchain to its place as one of the hottest topics in healthcare. Travelling around the world, the team has presented and keynoted To add to its glory, the developers at Hashed Health have completed and won premiere hackathon events like ETHWaterloo and Discover Blockchain, to name a few. Individually, John has been awarded Nashville Technology Council 2017's Innovator of the Year. Strong-Willed to Better the Future of Healthcare Currently, the company is building an ecosystem of solutions that address previously unsolvable problems. Hashed Health endeavors to create a portfolio of complementary and symbiotic applications that will fundamentally change healthcare delivery. With frameworks and marketplaces, it wants to allow the industry, constrained by legacy practices and technologies, to evolve without blowing up a system so many patients depend on. “Starting from scratch is not an option, but the current system is unsustainable – blockchain is how this generation can evolve away from today’s healthcare infrastructure that is collapsing under its own weight,” John said. | September 2018 | 21