Enterprise Blockchain for Healthcare, IoT, Energy and Supply Chain

This course series covers applications in healthcare, IoT, energy & supply chain—providing essential insights for successful implementation.

  • 0.5 CEU / 5 PDH credits
  • Launched 2019
  • 5 courses
  • 5 hours

Course Description

This course series, provided in collaboration with IEEE Blockchain, an IEEE Future Directions initiative, takes the learner on a journey exploring blockchain applications and impact to industries focusing on the verticals of healthcare, internet of things, grid modernization (energy), and supply chain. In order for organizations to successfully understand and implement emerging uses for blockchain, it’s imperative to gain technical insight into this technology.

Course Objectives

  • How and where blockchain will impact corporations
  • Blockchain models and underlying technological advantages
  • How blockchain for energy works, key drivers of adoption
  • Blockchain applicability to healthcare data
  • Convergence, opportunities, use cases for IoT
  • Adopting blockchain for supply chain use

Authors and Instructors

Steve Derezinski

Consultant

Steve Derezinski consults with major corporations on blockchain strategy and new blockchain ventures. He taught Blockchain Ventures at MIT Media Lab and Babson College, and sits on a number of boards and funding panels. He is an expert reviewer for a Federal Agency’s Blockchain Funding and a subject matter expert for large philanthropic foundations in the USA and EU. He holds a BS from MIT and MBA from MIT Sloan.

Edward Bukstel

CCEO, Clinical Blockchain LLC

Edward Bukstel is CEO of Clinical Blockchain LLC. He has 30 years of clinical data integration, data security, and communications experience. He has successfully licensed systems and services to companies, including international pharmaceutical and managed care organizations. Mr. Bukstel was a founding member of the ASTM E1238 Standard that became integrated into HL7. He has been a national speaker on electronic data interchange and has been a guest lecturer at The Wharton Business School. Mr. Bukstel has written extensively on Blockchain and Healthcare and founded Clinical Blockchain LLC in 2016 to address Patient-Doctor Messaging on a Blockchain Platform.

Claudio Lima

Entrepreneur in Advanced Digital Transformation and co-founder of the Blockchain Engineering Council (BEC)

Dr. Claudio Lima is an industry thought leader and entrepreneur in Advanced Digital Transformation. Dr. Lima is the co-founder of the Blockchain Engineering Council, or BEC, which is an independent consulting organization and think tank that promotes Blockchain technology. He has a Ph.D. in Electronic Engineering from the University of Kent in the UK. Dr. Lima is the Chair of the IEEE Blockchain Energy Standards Working Group, Vice-Chair of the IEEE Blockchain IoT Standards Working Group, and a Member of the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory’s Industry Advisory Board on Blockchain Cybersecurity.