Security News > 2020 > March > Making the Healthcare Supply Chain 'Smarter'

How can the use of "Smart contracts" based on distributed ledger technology help improve the overall security picture for evolving healthcare sector supply chains? Mitch Parker, CISO of Indiana University Health, explains.

"Smart contracts are pieces of executable code that can run as part of a distributed ledge technology system, and they're relevant to healthcare supply chain because a lot of the [newer] enterprise planning resource systems we're putting in actually support those as a way of doing data interchange," says Parker in an interview with Information Security Media Group.

The healthcare sector "Originally designed security for supply chain based on point-to-point [data] interchange," he says.

The aim of smart contracts "Is to better secure this consortia approach of supply chain ... so that can more efficiently operate and protect their interests and assets," he says.

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