https://youtu.be/C3enWUytVsc This is a quick animated summary of a pretty long blog article by Georg Jürgens from Spherity. It explains why an open standardized approach to DSCSA-relevant Authorized Trading Partner (ATP) look-ups helps everyone in the US pharmaceutical industry. Find even more background on credentialing at OCI. Music: "Francisco" by [...]
Read MoreSpherity has developed an Ethereum-based credential revocation mechanism for use in the US pharmaceutical supply chain I have previously written about the importance of managing a registry of trusted issuers in the context of enterprise Self-sovereign Identity (SSI). A credential issuer, in turn, must maintain a registry of revoked verifiable credentials (VCs). [...]
Read MoreI care a lot about adult education because I’m a life-long learner. Having gone through a fair bit of academic, professional as well as continuous informal and unstructured learning, I have begun thinking about the topic from […]
I participated at an informal panel discussion for IEEE Healthcare Blockchain AI Virtual Forum Session 6 alongside Jim Kyung-Soo Liew and Samantha Crowe and moderated by Sean Manion. Click here to check it out!
It seems that after an initial frenzy at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, when seemingly almost any old test could somehow make it on the market (check out the April news review for comments on quality issues), […]
The purpose of a vaccine is effectively to train the immune system in recognising and combatting the virus quickly should there ever be a real infection. To do so, vaccines deliver virus components, which are harmless on […]
Working across disciplines can be confusing, not only due to professional jargon but also due to basic terminology being used interchangeably by different people or media sources. This is very true in the biomedical sphere. After a […]
Optimising supply chain management provides several tremendous use cases for blockchain applications. Below is a quick summary of two very informative blockchain discussions on supply chain transformation that provide some useful overviews across different industries and various […]
Check out my latest monthly review! It showcases Blue Steens’ latest posts, some news from biopharma & medtech as well as interesting events I have attended or noticed. At a glance In terms of COVID-19, more interesting […]
COVID-19 has had a huge impact on various industries including manufacturing, travel & tourism as well as life sciences and healthcare. When we talk about ‘industries’, inevitably we talk about human lives. Let’s look beyond the immediate […]
Check out my latest monthly review! It showcases Blue Steens’ latest posts, some news from biopharma & medtech as well as interesting events I have attended or noticed. At a glance In terms of COVID-19, test kits […]