EP177: Blockchain Revealed, With Cyrus Maaghul, Founder and CEO of HealthCombix and Co-founder of PointNurse

Cyrus Maaghul is a serial entrepreneur currently applying distributed systems, blockchain, and cryptocurrency technology to the health care industry as founder and CEO of HealthCombix and Co-founder/Board Member at PointNurse. Cyrus' health care blockchain thought-leadership has appeared in articles on CoinDesk, Nasdaq, Distributed, and other media outlets. His experience as a payments technology entrepreneur and working inside world-class organizations like Fidelity Investments' Blockchain Incubator and Deloitte Consulting give him a unique perspective to advise, develop strategy, and build decentralized networks. HealthCombix is currently developing new foundational infrastructure and custom applications for decentralized health care, including identity, consent, privacy, smart health trusts, governance, and asset management capabilities. PointNurse is a digital decentralized autonomous-based peer-to-peer virtual health platform seeking to drive down the cost of primary care, streamline clinical trials, and nursing by displacing various intermediaries. Cyrus' interest in blockchain technology began in 2013 after investing in Bitcoin. This led to his investigating how to use blockchain to solve problems related to privacy, peer-to-peer data sharing, security, administration costs, and virtual community governance. You can learn more at healthcombix.com.