Employing Blockchain Technology to Understand Personalized Medicine

Banking on Blockchain: Costs Savings Thanks to the Blockchain Technology

This paper looks at the challenges and opportunities of implementing blockchain technology across banking, providing food for thought about the potentialities of this disruptive technology. The blockchain technology can optimize the global financial infrastructure, achieving sustainable development, using more efficient systems than at present. In fact, many banks are currently focusing on bloc...

Blockchain Technology in Finance

Roadmap to personalized medicine

Standard clinical protocols and the concept "one drug fits all" that are currently used to treat illness in many cases are not effective, and strikingly so in the treatment of cancer, where 75% of therapeutic schemes are ineffective. The concept of personalized medicine is that the treatment of the disease is designed on the basis of the individual needs of each patient and the factors that inf...

Introduction to Personalized Medicine

Readers may have noticed a new healthcare catchphrase gracing magazine covers and even the front page of the New York Times: “personalized medicine.”1 But what does it mean and how will it change healthcare? According to the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, ‘Personalized medicine refers to the tailoring of medical treatment to the individual characteristics of each pat...

Blockchain manoeuvres: applying Bitcoin's technology to banking

Already there are ideas for using the blockchain to make payments faster and cheaper, to make it easier for small businesses to obtain finance and for banks to assess mortgage portfolios at the click of a mouse. Smart trade finance contracts are being worked on that are so watertight, they will never be argued over in court. Securities transactions could be settled in minutes rather than days. ...