Episode 018: Your Papers Please. Digitizing our Credentials with Dr. Leah Houston.

My guest, Dr. Leah Houston, is an emergency physician by training who ran into an unfortunate instance where her professional identity was used without her knowledge that put her at significant legal risk. Through that experience she began to wonder if there was a way for physicians to hold onto their identity. Her concept is HPEC which uses the block chain and provides a platform for physicians to control the validation of their credentials in a decentralized way that they can then monetize.

Her plan is for physicians to own, operate, and utilize this credentialing service putting them in charge of their identity and communicating in an open and decentralized forum to disseminate ideas and innovations free from outside corporate interests. It's a bold and ambitious plan and we will discuss it in detail during this show.

In the interest of full disclosure, this is a new venture and investment opportunity for physicians. We will not discuss the financial details of how to become a founding member but all inquiries can be sent through the HPEC website. As of this writing, I am not a founding member and do not mean for the show to be my endorsement or recommendation. I simply hope you find the idea of empowering physicians and block chain technology entering the medical field as interesting as I do.

Dr. Leah Houston, ER trained physician and founder of HPEC, a digitized physician credentialing service.

show notes

HPEC: This is the main landing page for Dr. Houston's venture. HPEC is looking to transform the credentialing world for physicians by allowing them to own and control their personal credentials.

Houston Health: Dr. Houston's medical practice landing page.

Stop Organ Harvesting: Another organization seeking to expose and tell more people about what is happening in China. Some great links about the Falun Gong who were targeted for persecution.

Hey Doc, I'm Over Here. That's Just a Computer Screen: Episode 006 and the problem with electronic health records.

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