{"id":10727,"date":"2018-06-21T05:00:57","date_gmt":"2018-06-21T09:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=10727"},"modified":"2018-06-20T15:27:46","modified_gmt":"2018-06-20T19:27:46","slug":"walmarts-idea-of-optimized-networks-to-improve-healthcare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=10727","title":{"rendered":"Walmart&#8217;s idea of &#8220;optimized networks&#8221; to improve healthcare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Walmart has been awarded a patent for a system that would store a person\u2019s medical information in a blockchain database. The patent describes three key parts to the system: a wearable device in which the blockchain is stored; a biometric scanner for an individual\u2019s biometric signature; and a RFID scanner to scan the wearable device. Read article for further details. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthcaredive.com\/news\/walmart-wins-patent-for-medical-records-stored-on-blockchain\/526097\/\">Click here\u2026<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/keyboard.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10731\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/keyboard-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/keyboard-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/keyboard.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre>Notice: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walmart has been awarded a patent for a system that would store a person\u2019s medical information in a blockchain database.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medical-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10727"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10733,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10727\/revisions\/10733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}