Giant Panda: Stanford CDH Workshop: Blockchain Technology in Healthcare, 1 Tracks transactions the way it tracks and stores data is in a CHAIN of blocks 2 Decentralized and distributed so it creates TRUST in the data (2:20) solves a cryptographic puzzle as first step to adding a block in the ledger 3 Dramatic lessening of intermediaries - i.e. such as bankers/lawyers etc. (3:20) ... how could blockchain be used with tele-robotic surgery?

Stanford CDH Workshop: Blockchain Technology in Healthcare

Dear Dr. Chang,

Thanks for your excellent Stanford Center for Digital Health CDH Workshop: Blockchain Technology in Healthcare - https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cdh-workshop-blockchain-technology-in-healthcare-tickets-56202924460 - and great to talk with you afterward. Greetings to Dr. Diana Do MD (and to Dr. Bob Harrington MD, with whom I've talked about this as well).

You'll find here MIT Digital Currency Initiative's Director Neha Narula talking on a panel in the last hour or so of this recent day-long MIT Blockchain with Robotic Systems' conference - some about cryptocurrency with blockchain questions - "Symposium on Blockchain for Robotic Systems" .... https://youtu.be/OcSYWWuO6rU ... and saying that no current cryptocurrency can scale larger than 1 billion people at this stage (accessible from ... https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/12/tunguska-russia-asteroid-1908.html ... (where I blog some about tele-robotic surgery as well - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/surgery). Neha is also the Director of the MIT Digital Currency Initiative - https://dci.mit.edu/ . The MIT CDI is working on developing the technical side of cryptocurrency. (And World Univ & Sch is exploring facilitating an UBI partly as a way to distribute an initial single cryptocurrency).

Your talk was so much more sophisticated than this - "What is blockchain" -

What is blockchain? pic.twitter.com/vTyWA4snXQ
— Vala Afshar (@ValaAfshar) January 27, 2018

https://twitter.com/ValaAfshar/status/957308334154985472 :

1 Tracks transactions

the way it tracks and stores data is in a CHAIN of blocks

2 Decentralized and distributed so it creates TRUST in the data (2:20)

solves a cryptographic puzzle as first step to adding a block in the ledger

3 Dramatic lessening of intermediaries -

i.e. such as bankers/lawyers etc. (3:20)

(https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/10/gold-dust-day-gecko-blockchain-ledger.html)

- but based on this, and your cryptocurrencies with blockchain focus, I asked what happens when a single cryptocurrency with block chain ledger (and with robotics' systems) backed by some number of central banks in the world (eg the 19 of 28 European Union banks?) emerges?

Vis-a-vis your research example, World University and School is planning online MIT OCW-centric / Stanford Medicine-centric online 'medical schools' - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Medical_School and https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Medical%20Schools - and with online teaching hospitals - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Hospital - for online clinical care in all ~200 countries' official and main languages - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States - each offering online free-to-students' Bachelor, Ph.D., Law, M.D. and I.B. degrees in main languages. Clinical ophthalmology would happen, conceptually, online re the above.

I'm also interested in creating a Realistic Virtual Earth (for everything actually) which could become an approach to planning for blockchain with tele-robotic surgery. Conceptually, this would be like Google Street View with time slider / Maps / Earth / at the cellular and atomic levels too, with / TensorFlow / Google Poly a library of virtual objects and Google's ARCore (for AR) - and importantly, potentially with Stanford & Duke Medicine's / Google's Project Baseline, and with eventual realistic avatar bots, and which would be group build-able (thinking Second Life / OpenSim now into Sansar ), and eventually too for tele-robotic surgery (brainstorming-wise). Very nice to meet and talk with you in person as well.

Robert, conceptually, how might tele-robotic ophthalmological surgery work with blockchain ledger with the images / machine learning example you outlined - and re your research project?

Thank you again for your excellent "Blockchain Technology in Healthcare" talk. And I look forward to learning more from you in the future.

Thank you,

Scott

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