{"id":31765,"date":"2017-09-22T19:26:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-22T19:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/4165093"},"modified":"2017-09-22T19:26:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-22T19:26:00","slug":"why-is-the-healthcare-industry-abuzz-about-blockchain-cloudexpo-cloud-fintech-blockchain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/why-is-the-healthcare-industry-abuzz-about-blockchain-cloudexpo-cloud-fintech-blockchain\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Is the Healthcare Industry Abuzz About Blockchain? | @CloudExpo #Cloud #FinTech #Blockchain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blockchain. A day doesn\u2019t seem to go by without seeing articles and discussions about the technology. According to PwC executive Seamus Cushley, approximately $1.4B has been invested in blockchain just last year. In Gartner\u2019s recent hype cycle for emerging technologies, blockchain is approaching the peak. It is considered by Gartner as one of the \u2018Key platform-enabling technologies to track.\u2019 While there is a lot of \u2018hype vs reality\u2019 discussions going on, there is no arguing that blockchain is being taken very seriously across industries and cannot be ignored.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/4165093\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blockchain. A day doesn&rsquo;t seem to go by without seeing articles and discussions about the technology. According to PwC executive Seamus Cushley, approximately $1.4B has been invested in blockchain just last year. In Gartner&rsquo;s recent hype cycle for emerging technologies, blockchain is approaching the peak. It is considered by Gartner as one of the &lsquo;Key platform-enabling technologies to track.&rsquo; While there is a lot of &lsquo;hype vs reality&rsquo; discussions going on, there is no arguing that blockchain is being taken very seriously across industries and cannot be ignored.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/4165093\" target=\"_blank\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":143,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/143"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31765"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33533,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31765\/revisions\/33533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}