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Jul 25, 2018	Blockchains for biomedicine and health care are coming. Buyer: be informed	In a First Opinion piece on how blockchain technologies could affect health care and the life sciences, its landscape map included 48 projects covering areas like decentralized health records and data marketplaces. Just six months later, th...
Dec 27, 2017	Blockchains and health care: promising and moving quickly, though no silver bullet	The buzz about opportunities for blockchains in the health care and pharmaceutical industries continues to ramp up. This technology can give us new tools to secure medical information, track pharmaceutical supply chains, and more. While blo...
Apr 28, 2017	Partners Healthcare and Persistent Systems join forces to produce clinical decision support tools	Clinicians, growing weary of valueless box checking and unnecessary complexity, complain that information technology has not lived up to its promise of improving patient care. But a major health system and global software developer are team...
Mar 20, 2013	Participatory surveillance in public health: Sharing is caring	Sharing via social media is a great opportunity for collecting better public health data and encouraging healthy behavior changes. (bengrey/Flickr) By Tom Ulrich We humans are sharing creatures. We talk about ourselves, what we think, what ...
Oct 24, 2012	New app distills the fine art of interpreting a child’s blood pressure	Hypertension is harder to diagnose in children than you think. A new app, which can work with multiple EMR systems, helps doctors interpret a child’s blood pressure readings based on age, height, sex and measurement technique, and get the l...
Mar 2, 2012	Tweeting in the time of cholera	Improving or maintaining access to clean drinking water is the best way to prevent a cholera epidemic. Twitter could prove an excellent way to help stop one. (Julien Harneis/Flickr) By Tom Ulrich It was after the devastating 2010 Haiti eart...
Dec 13, 2011	SHRINE: Clinical and population research by the numbers	(victoriapeckham/Flickr) By Tom Ulrich As we’ve discussed before, clinical research really comes down to a numbers game. But getting enough patients for a study, particularly for rare diseases, can be a daunting challenge. Similarly, it can...
Oct 28, 2011	What’s going around: Can biosurveillance data improve patient care in real-time?	A broad view of what’s going on locally may help doctors make better clinical decisions when patients come to them for things like strep throat. (zigazou76/Flickr) By Tom Ulrich Anyone’s risk of catching an infectious disease is closely lin...
Oct 26, 2011	Does vaccinating preschoolers for the flu make a difference? A natural experiment says, “Yes!”	Preschoolers are often the first to catch the flu every year. Vaccinating children in this age group may help the whole family avoid the flu. (Luke & Courtney Barrett/Flickr) By Tom Ulrich When anyone in my house gets a cold or other bu...
Jun 3, 2011	Mobile flu tracking? There’s an app for that	By Tom Ulrich Before you know it, flu season – that miserable time of sneezing, snuffling, coughing, and generally feeling blah – will be upon us again. And as with anything, the best way to deal with the flu is to be prepared for it. But w...
May 14, 2011	Crowdsourcing discovery: Scientists tap citizenry for data collection	By Tom Ulrich What do a project cataloging pictures of galaxies, an RNA folding game, and a call for people with diabetes to contribute data all have in common? Each is part of a new revolution in science. Called "citizen science"...
Mar 21, 2011	Google search metrics reveal unhealthy behavior, ineffective health policy	By Nancy Fliesler In April 2009, the U.S. federal cigarette excise tax was raised from $0.39 to $1.01 per pack as part of Congress’ reauthorization of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program. This well-intentioned “SCHIP tax” was mean...
Feb 14, 2011	What social networking can do for patients	By Parizad Bilimoria A teenager with type I diabetes has general admission tickets to a U2 concert. She’ll have to stand in a crowd all day to get a decent spot, and wonders how to make sure her blood sugar doesn’t hit a dangerous low. A gr...
	Partners Healthcare and Persistent Systems join forces to produce clinical decision support tools	Clinicians, growing weary of valueless box checking and unnecessary complexity, complain that information technology has not lived up to its promise of improving patient care. But a major health system and global software developer are team...

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Parsers VC has collected 15 articles mentioning About CHIP, among them “Blockchains for biomedicine and health care are coming. Buyer: be informed” (Jul 25, 2018) and “Blockchains and health care: promising and moving quickly, though no silver bullet” (Dec 27, 2017).

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Yes, About CHIP is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Oct 10, 2026.