Mumbai: In response to India’s urgent healthcare challenges, IIT Bombay and Blockchain for Impact (BFI) have established a strategic partnership to catalyse transformative projects and revolutionise the public health landscape in the country. Given India’s large population and complex public health issues, challenges to India’s burdened healthcare system are mounting. The collaboration is expected to … Read more
In the ever-evolving landscape of pharmaceuticals, where precision, safety, and trust are non-negotiable, blockchain technology emerges as the beacon of a revolutionary transformation. Beyond its cryptocurrency origins, blockchain is poised to redefine lifescience businesses, reshaping processes from the laboratory to the global supply chain. As per a Gartner report, blockchain’s business value in the pharmaceutical … Read more
We live in a VUCA world which stands for volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity — no industry is safe from the uncertainties it brings. One must always seek a different approach to harness the organization’s potential to survive and thrive in this evolving world. Insurance is also no exception to this VUCA world and must … Read more
By Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay New Delhi: Public health as a subject is of prime importance to every nation. Especially, India with its 1.4 billion population faces an uphill task in providing universal and affordable healthcare. Without leveraging technology at scale, such aspirations will only remain a pipe dream. Importantly, the COVID pandemic has shown the world … Read more
New Delhi: At a cotton gin in the San Joaquin Valley, in California, a boxy machine helps to spray a fine mist containing billions of molecules of DNA onto freshly cleaned Pima cotton. That DNA will act as a kind of minuscule bar code, nestling amid the puffy fibers as they are shuttled to factories … Read more
Greenlakes, a Bengaluru-based prop-tech startup on Tuesday announced a pioneering blockchain-based solution for its flagship project ‘Greenlakes Farmlands,’ making it the first Indian company to use blockchain solutions for farmlands. This solution claims to be a non-editable distributed ledger that gives users access to transparent, trusted and verified information about their land, particularly during the … Read more
In a major overhaul for the crypto world’s most ambitious software upgrade, Ethereum completed a key revamp of its blockchain network– the Merge. The second-largest crypto token has now moved to the proof-of-stake (PoS) mechanism from Proof-of-Work (PoW). This is the first instance when an existing and running blockchain has made such a move. Following … Read more
New Delhi : Metaverse, the new buzzword amongst healthcare, a collective virtual shared space is no more a mystery box. This new emerging technology which is more prominent in the cryptocurrency market and gaming segment is now slowly proliferating in the healthcare domain. Some of the big hospitals are already adapting the digital virtual space … Read more
New Delhi: Amid selloff in crypto markets, India’s own Gari token has risen about 40 per cent in the last 24 hours after blockchain launched the Gari mining program. The Gari token is powered by ChinGari, a social media platform for content creators. Under the newly launched mining program, creators and users will get Gari … Read more
New Delhi : The wide-ranging utilities and potential of the blockchain industry are now undisputed and are being explored and researched constantly to address the problems of various sectors. A report titled ‘Blockchain Applications in the Healthcare Sector’ published by EU Blockchain Observatory and Forum in April 2022 has taken a comprehensive account of the … Read more