blockchain health and crypto wellness futures

Finland, May 5, 2015

Slides: http://slideshare.net/LaBlogga

Melanie Swan

[email protected]

www.BlockchainStudies.org

Digital Health Revolution:

Blockchain Health and

Crypto Wellness Futures

May 5, 2015

Blockchain Health

What is the Blockchain?

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The blockchain is a new class of

information technology …

that could be like the Internet in terms of

pervasively reconfiguring all of human activity,

at minimum facilitating decentralized models

as a technologically-resilient and liberty-

enhancing complement to centralized

hierarchical models

http://www.amazon.com/Bitcoin-Blueprint-New-World-Currency/dp/1491920491

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What is blockchain technology

(literally)?

2

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin, https://bitcoin.org/en/download, https://getaddr.bitnodes.io/

Open-source software upon which

Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies run

A technology protocol layer like TCP/IP

A decentralized database/ledger

Giant ‘interactive Google doc spreadsheet’

that anyone can view and administrators

(miners) continually verify and update to

confirm that each transaction is valid

Secure network where any transaction can

be independently confirmed as unique and

valid without a centralized intermediary

Blocks (batches) of transactions posted

sequentially to a ledger (chain)

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What is blockchain technology

(conceptually)?

3

A decentralized database, a transaction ledger

A new form of information technology

A globally-distributed always-on database system for

secure, permanently-recorded independently-validated

transactions

A universal organization and coordination system

A registry, listing, and management system for all of the world’s

assets, smart property, and itemizable quanta

Asset registry, inventory, tracking, and exchange

A society’s public records repository, a representative

and participatory legal and governance system

A tool for large-scale science and health applications


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Melanie Swan, Blockchain Scholar

Founder, Institute for Blockchain Studies

Singularity University Instructor, EDGE Contributor IEET Affiliate Scholar Swan, M. Blockchain: Blueprint for a New Economy. Sebastopol CA: O'Reilly Media, 2015.

Swan, M. We Should Consider The Future World As One Of Multi-Species Intelligence. Response to The Edge Question 2015: What do you think about machines that think? John Brockman, Ed., 2015.

Swan, M. Cognitive Applications of the Brain as a DAC. Cognitive Science 2015: The Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Mind, Technology, and Society, Pasadena CA, July 2015. submitted.

Swan, M. Philosophy of Big Data: Expanding the Human-Data Relation with Big Data Science Services. IEEE BigDataService 2015, Redwood City CA, Mar 31-Apr 2, 2015.

Swan, M. Blockchain Thinking: The Brain as a DAC (Decentralized Autonomous Corporation). Texas Bitcoin Conference, Austin TX, March 27-29, 2015.

Swan, M. Machine ethics interfaces: An ethics of perception of nanorobot-aided cognition. Journal of Responsible Innovation. submitted.

Traditional Markets,

Science, Arts BackgroundNew Vision

http://melanieswan.com/publications.htm, http://www.amazon.com/Bitcoin-Blueprint-New-World-Currency/dp/1491920491


http://www.melanieswan.com/





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Blockchain (non-technical overview of blockchain possibilities)

What people are saying…

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visionary ideas. I was waiting for awhile for this

kind of book – JM

A compelling and unique overview of the

possibilities – DC

Thank you for helping bring about a new era in

finance – JW


May 5, 2015

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Blockchain Health Applications

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Immediate Near-Future Longer-term Future

Universal EMR Smart Contracts and

Health Insurance

Blockchain Happiness:

Personal Development Chains

Health Databanks Smart Property: Drug and

Inventory Management

Virtual Patient Modeling

Quantified Self Data

Commons

Health Token: HSN,

Research

Blockchain AI Applications:

Big Data File Storage,

Access, and Analysis

Smarthome, Personal

Robotics, QS IOT

Friendly AI

Health Document

Notarization and Tracking

Environmental Monitoring Blockchain Deep-Learners

Identity Verification Demurrage Redistributions Blockchain Health Advocates

Health Vendor RFPs Health Policy Voting Digital Mindfile Services

HSN: Health Social Network, IOT: Internet of Things


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Blockchain Health

Universal EMR: finally ‘health XML’?

Personal health records stored and administered via blockchain

Users key-permission doctors and other parties into records

Apple HealthKit, Bluehub Health, Google Health (concept)

Health Databanks and Research Commons

Aggregated personal medical records, quantified self data

commons, genome and connectome files

Health Document Notary Services

Proof-of-insurance, test results, prescriptions, status, diagnoses,

conditions, treatments, physician referrals

Doctor Vendor RFP Services

Doctors and health practices bid to supply medical services;

automated bidding via health exchanges (OpenBazaar)

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http://futurememes.blogspot.fr/2014/09/blockchain-health-remunerative-health.html

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Blockchain Notarization

Notary Service, Attestation

Register health documents, diagnoses, EMRs, contracts,

agreements, wills (Proof of Existence, Factom)

Register, protect, and transact IP (Monegraph, Ascribe)

How it works

Hash + timestamp + blockchain record

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http://www.proofofexistence.com/

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Blockchain Big Health Data

Proprietary genomic datasets and cloud-based tools

Baylor College of Medicine (3,751 whole human genomes (of 7

bn) and 10,771 exomes (440 terabytes) as of 2013)

Genomic Data Commons (open only to US scientists)

DNAnexus (cloud-based data analysis and management

platform for DNA sequence data)

Decentralized projects: big data access + query tools for

scalability, practicality privacy, liberty, availability

DNA.bits (www.dna-bits.com) blockchain-based

Large genetic dataset access with correlated clinical records

Dexter (dexter.stanford.edu)

Enduser-targeted, browser-based, domain-independent, structured-

data explorer; run big data queries from browser

CrowdMed (www.crowdmed.com) crowdsourced disease diagnosis

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http://futurememes.blogspot.fr/2014/09/blockchain-health-remunerative-health.html

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Blockchain Genomics

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Censorship-resistant blockchains counter

jurisdictional regulation preventing

individuals from accessing their own data

Global organization uplift to blockchain

cloud: WikiLeaks, ICANN, Genome Chains

http://genomesunzipped.org/2011/03/people-have-a-right-to-access-their-own-genetic-information.php

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What is Smart Property?

Register assets to blockchain via unique key

Real-time GPS ‘LoJack’ tracking for any asset

Blockchain becomes an inventory, tracking,

and exchange mechanism for all hard assets

Smart Property Health Applications

Drug and equipment inventory (example: Blocktrace

ledger tracks diamonds); equipment servicing records

Test results logged as smart property

Digital authentication and RT keyless entry

On-demand real-time inventorying of all hospital’s,

city’s, country’s equipment

Supply chain provenance https://www.provenance.org

OpenBazaar health exchange markets (equipment)

11https://openbazaar.org/, http://www.edgelogic.net/blocktrace, Provenance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqIUBn80pg4

A decentralized CraigsList

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What are Smart Contracts?

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Agreements between parties posted to the

blockchain for automated execution

Examples

Bet on high temperature tomorrow

Inheritance pay-out at age 21 or death of benefactor

Mortgage with automatic interest-rate resets

Blockchain-based Greek tax receipts in Ricardian

Contracts (Yanis Varoufakis)

Code: Ethereum and Eris

https://github.com/ethereum/

http://www.etherparty.io/

https://erisindustries.com/

https://eng.erisindustries.com/smart%20contracts/2014/12/17/dennys-smart-contracting/ ,

http://forum.ethereum.org/discussion/1402/how-to-get-started-your-first-dapp-under-one-hour,

http://financialcryptography.com/mt/archives/001555.html

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Smart Health Contracts

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Hospital Visit Dapp (distributed application)

Runs in the background, automatically manages visit

Admittance: retrieves universal EMR, verifies identity,

insurance, and payment information from health wallet

Annotates universal EMR, facilitates checkout

Peer-to-peer Insurance

Peer-evaluated and peer-adjudicated health claims

Dynamis www.dynamisapp.com, BitSilk https://twitter.com/bitsilk

Peer-based mediation and legal system

Precedent http://www.precedentcoin.com

Quantified Self Personal Health DAC

Codified QS data collection and action-taking

Automated integration of health data streams

DAC: distributed autonomous corporation

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Digital Health Wallet

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Private key identity card + EMR +

health insurance info + payment data

Use HealthToken to pay for services

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Blockchain IOT

15http://www.zdnet.com/article/internet-of-things-market-to-hit-7-1-trillion-by-2020-idc/,


https://gigaom.com/2014/09/09/check-out-ibms-proposal-for-an-internet-of-things-architecture-using-bitcoins-block-chain-tech/

M2M/IOT Bitcoin payment network to

enable the machine economy & mThings

The economic layer the web never had

IOT 2020: 26 bn devices in a $7 tn market

IOT agricultural and environmental

sensors posting to blockchains

Quantifying processes; insurance data

Smartcity orchestration

Example project: IBM Adept

Blockchain + Messaging + BitTorrent

Communication + coordination mechanism

Scale from thousands to millions of sensorsSmartcity Infrastructure

and Connected Car

Orchestration

IOT Sensor and Drone

Agricultural Monitoring

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Blockchain Smarthome IOT and Health

16http://www.amazon.com/Bitcoin-Blueprint-New-World-Currency/dp/1491920491

Smarthome IOT networks

Tool for managing device proliferation

Provide security and privacy of sensitive

smarthome data: physical and mental health,

product consumption

Devices: personal robotics, digital health

assistants, artificial companions, health

optimizers, quantified self-tracking

wearables, smartwatch, Fitbit, health tracker

With permissioning, smarthome, connected

car, smartcity infrastructure to provide daily

health check for the whole populace,

including quality-of-life mental statePersonal Robotics

Coordination

Smarthome IOT: Hue Go

Wireless Smartlighting and

Amazon Dash Button

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Blockchain Health Policy Voting

Futarchy, two-step program

1. Traditional vote, on outcomes not people

2. Prediction markets to determine specific

proposals for achieving the outcome

Delegative democracy (Liquid Democracy)

Voting power temporarily vested in delegates

not long-term representatives

Group proposition development

Chain-orchestrated Random Sample Elections

Health Prediction Markets

IEM Flu Markets

Uncover hidden information in institutions

Community physical/mental health markets

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https://bitcoinmagazine.com/17066/first-blockchain-wedding-2/

http://www.bitnation-blog.com/latest-update-dec-22nd-2014/

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GBI and Demurrage HealthToken

Nationally-denominated GBIToken Freicoin: Switzerland GBI (Guaranteed Basic Income)

Nationally-denominated HealthToken Health services payment administration, health research token

Demurrage currency: deflationary, built-in mechanism for

expiry, reissuance, redistribution; = action-incitory

Fitbit and smartwatch are demurrage health currencies

Health itself as a demurrage currency, a continually auto-

redistributing commodity among synapses, cells, humans,

societies; body and brain as a DAO/DAC AI

Concept: demurrage resource-allocation via Dapp: Automatic

redistribution of any commodity within a system (brain or mindfile (potentiation,

optogenetic stimulation)), body (‘health’ (oxygen, waste removal nanobots,

circulating lab-on-chips)), work team (ideas), society (liberty)

18

Fitbit is a demurrage (action-inciting) health currency

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Economic Principles: not just for Economics

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Economic Principles

Traditional Deployment

Markets

Blockchain Deployment

Any interaction is a discovery

and exchange process

Abundance mindset and

overcoming scarcity

Decentralized models

supplement hierarchy

Demurrage incitatory potential

and resource redistribution

across network nodes

Reciprocal mining communities

Blockchain technology is

prompting us to rethink

economic principles in markets,

and apply them much more

extensively to other situations in

a non-monetary sense

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Blockchain Happiness

Virtual patient modeling: AI/DL algorithms over

integrated health data streams

QS wearables, smarthome, smartcity, connected car

Blockchain-based personal development contracts

Programmable Utility Functions

Impute utility function from QS-biometrics and integrated

health chain data

Time and quality-of-time spent in different activities

Complexity math (power laws, coefficients, cellular

automata, fractals, Eigenvalues, nearest neighbor,) to

instantiate both the qualitative and the quantitative

Actualization Chains, Maslow Contracts

Extend our capacity to become ‘more’ of who we are and

can be more quickly

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Blockchain AI Applications

Artificial Intelligence

1. Friendly AI

2. Blockchain Deep-Learners

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Instantiating thinking as a blockchain process

Blockchain thinking applications for the immediate progress of

intelligence and the longer-term transition to digital societies

Human Enhancement

3. Blockchain Advocates

4. Digital Mindfile Services

http://www.slideshare.net/lablogga/brain-as-a-dac-swan

http://www.melanieswan.com/documents/BlockchainThinking_SWAN.pdf

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App #1: Friendly AI

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Digital intelligences running on

consensus-managed

smartnetworks

Good reputational standing

required to conduct operations

Resource access, fund-raising,

services, contracts

Consensus only validates and

records bonafide transactions

from ‘good’ agents

Sources: http://cointelegraph.com/news/113368/blockchain-ai-5-top-reasons-the-blockchain-will-deliver-friendly-ai,

http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/swan20141117

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App #2: Blockchain Deep-Learners

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Crucial moment for AI: large data

corpora and ‘simple’ machine

learning algorithms

Narrow AI: Google News, Translate,

Image Recognition

Broad AI: Genomes, Connectomes

Example: Enlitic (http://www.enlitic.com/)

disease diagnosis via deep learning

Large databases of personal

connectomes reveal brain structure

Blockchain EMR, genome,

connectome file sharing

Sources: http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en/us/pubs/archive/35179.pdf,

http://arxiv.org/abs/1112.6209

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App #3: Blockchain Advocates

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Human Enhancement

Smart contracts: independent third-

party advocate in uncertain future

time frames

Wikipedia of the future: blockchain-

based oracle lookup services

“You are running on the current standard,

Windows 36 on a Quantum Itanium 3” -

smart contract valet

Security for digital intelligences,

both AI and mindfiles

Source: http://www.melanieswan.com/documents/BlockchainThinking_SWAN.pdf

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App #4: Digital Mindfile Services

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Human Enhancement

Digital Mindfile Uploads

‘Digital you’ services: LifeNaut, CyBeRev

Brain scan, personal connectome

Instantiate your mindfile as a DAC

Personal Thinking Chains

Life-logging, QS biometric datastore

Chain-based Memory, Ideas, Identity

Mindsim chains

Like digital health sims (Entelos)

Source: http://www.melanieswan.com/documents/BlockchainThinking_SWAN.pdf

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Enterprise Blockchain Apps by Sector (selected)


Crucial Blockchain Properties

• Cryptoledger

• Decentralized network

• Trustless

counterparties

• Independent

consensus-confirmed

transactions

• Permanent record

• Public records

repository

• Notarization time-

stamping hashes

• Universal format

• Accessibility

Government

& Legal

• Transnational orgs

• Personalized

governance services

• Voting, propositions

• P2P bonds

• Tele-attorney services

• IP registration and

exchange

• Tax receipts

• Notary service and

document registry

Markets

• Currency

• Payments &

Remittance

• Banking & Finance

• Clearing &

Settlement

• Insurance

• FinTech

• Trading & Derivatives

• QA & Internal Audit

• Crowdfunding

IOT

• Agricultural & drone

sensor networks

• Smarthome networks

• Integrated smartcity,

connected car,

smarthome sensors

• Self-driving car

• Personalized robots,

robotic companions

• Personalized drones

• Digital assistants

• Communication

(messaging)

• Large-scale

coordination

• Entity ingress/egress

• Transaction security

• Universal format

• Large-scale multi-

data-stream

integration

• Privacy and security

Real-time

accessibility

Health

• Universal EMR

• Health databanks

• QS Data Commons

• Big health data

stream analytics

• Digital health wallet

• Smart property

• HealthToken

• Personal

development

contracts

• Large-scale

infrastructural

element for

coordination

• Checks-and-

balances system

for ‘good-player’

access

• Community

supercomputing

• Crowd analysis

• P2P resourcenets

• Film, dataviz

• AI: blockchain

advocates, friendly

AI, blockchain

learners, digital

mindfile services

Science,

Art, AI

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Decentralized Application (Dapp) Ecosystem


Project Name and URL Activity Centralized

Equivalent

OpenBazaar https://openbazaar.org Buy/sell items locally Craigslist

Twister http://twister.net.co

Gems http://getgems.org

Reveal http://rvl.rvl.is/

Project Groundhog https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFeJYv3PSaI

Social networking, peer-to-peer

microblogging, messaging; private

token-based social messaging

Facebook, Twitter

Bitmessage https://bitmessage.org Secure messaging (individual or

broadcast)

SMS services

LaZooz http://lazooz.org On-demand ride service Uber, Lyft

Storj http://storj.io/

Maidsafe http://maidsafe.net/

IPFS http://ipfs.io/

File storage, file serving Dropbox, Google

Drive

Onename https://onename.com/

BitID https://github.com/bitid/bitid

Bithandle http://www.hackathon.io/bithandle

Digital identity verification VeriFone, Verisign,

Facebook

Provenance https://www.provenance.org/ Supply chain management Oracle, SAP

Mist (Ethereum) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgNjs_WaFSc

ProTip Add-on https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/protip-peer-

to-peer-tipping-for-the-web

Dapp browser Chrome, Firefox,

Internet Explorer

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Blockchain Philosophy

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Liberty-enhancing

Participative, inclusive, expansive

Equality technology

A flexible structure accommodative of

diverse value systems

Eradicates illiberty

Authority: shifts locus to individual

Already: news, entertainment content,

stock-trading, quantified self

Now: currency, economics, government

Decentralization: Abundance mindset

GBI/demurrage currencies build certainty,

free cognitive surplus, basic needs met


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Summary

29

One of the most important emerging

technologies for enacting the future of health

and the empowered biocitizen is blockchains

Health (research, care delivery, and personal

self-wellness management) is a big data

analytics and security challenge that is solvable

by blockchain technology

Also - integrate protected health data with smartcity,

smarthome, and connected car infrastructure

Blockchains are a new form of information

technology, a decentralized system of checks-

and-balances, an infrastructure, an organizing

system that is universal, secure, and granularhttp://www.amazon.com/Bitcoin-Blueprint-New-World-Currency/dp/1491920491

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Conclusion

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Blockchain technology, cryptocurrencies, and smart

contracts are truly a new kind of thing…technically,

conceptually, structurally, and socially…with

tremendous potential to decentralize and transform

the manner in which we conduct all activity…to

realize futures that are more efficient and

participative, scalable at a planetary level, and

enhancing of core values such as liberty, equality,

and innovation


Finland, May 5, 2015

Slides: http://slideshare.net/LaBlogga

Melanie Swan

[email protected]

www.BlockchainStudies.org

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