Dalton and Dr. Houston discuss the broken healthcare system and how she plans to mend it. We talk about physician suicide, fraudulent healthcare costs, blockchain and health technology integration, and more. We also dip into her work as founder and CEO of Evercred and HPEC. Evercred is a credential issuing and data management software that gives practicing physicians ownership of their credentials. HPEC is the decentralized identity and credential wallet for the physician community so that physicians can own and control their professional identity and data.
2:40 Physician overload and suicide rate
12:48 How can we mend the current US healthcare system?
19:45 How is electronic patient data used in the healthcare system?
23:36 What is HPEC and DoctorsDAO, how can a physician join?
31:31 Misdiagnoses and fraudulent medical coding for financial incentives
36:10 Health insurance and price transparency
44:47 The long term vision of HPEC
48:23 Hidden healthcare costs
51:31 Advocacy, transparency, and interoperability
55:22 How is blockchain tech being implemented in the UK healthcare system?
58:40 What is the next step for HPEC?
61:31 Where can you find Dr. Leah Houston?
63:12 Outro
Dr. Leah Houston Twitter: @leahhoustonmd
HPEC Twitter: @HPECid
Podcast Twitter: @healthydosepod
https://www.hpec.io/
https://www.dpcare.org/
https://www.truu.id/
https://www.amazon.com/Price-We-Pay-American-Care/dp/1635574110
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