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Today starts the " Healthcare Blockchain Summit ". I wish I could be there. What makes a good use of Blockchain, while also helping Healthcare? What are the questions Blockchain proposals need to answer? Blockchain is the hot word right now, Gartner indicates that it is still on the Peak of Inflated Expectations. Gartner estimates 90% of enterprise blockchain projects launched in 2015 will fail within 18 to 24 months . Part of the problem is that the majority of enterprise blockchain projects don’t actually require blockchain technology. In fact, these projects would probably be more successful if they did not utilize blockchain. Gartner give fantastic reasons, that I very much agree with. I am not going to duplicate them here as they do a great job . Blockchain is a public ledger that is maintained by an interested network of systems. One can make a private blockchain, with private parties; this is possible, but I would argue takes much of the value out of the blockchain sys...

I propose that “The most technically advanced” document format be considered the Prime, with all of the other formats considered Transforms (XFRM) from that prime document. Thus if the Document Source can create a C-CDA 2.1; then that becomes the prime. Yet if a Document Source only can create a C32 and PDF, then the C32 would be the prime. In this way, regardless of if the secondary formats were actually derived from that prime document, they would be Registered as if they were. This enables a Document Consumer to follow the XFRM link to the Prime without needing to understand all the formats presented. The Document Consumer can also follow the XFRM links down to all the ‘equivalent’ formats to discover those to choose from. details..... Now that C-CDA 2.1 is emerging, the following situation becomes more prominent. The situation is that the same content could be encoded in various document format types. How do you publish in XDS/XCA a set of documents that cover the same content but...