Bio
Neil H. Wasserman (Ph.D.), Adjunct Prof. at George Washington University (GW), and Managing Director, Timewave Analytics, LLC, leads the design and implementation of healthcare applications of blockchain and other technologies. He teaches the first course on blockchain at GW (Computer Science Dept.) and is now involved the creation of a multidisciplinary center for healthcare and blockchain in the Washington DC region. He is applying distributed ledger techniques and platform business models to challenges in patient engagement and pilot development aimed at global health challenges. He has led workshops in blockchain use case and pilot development, guiding participants through a design process for blockchain applications to supply chain, value-based payments, identity, and access to healthcare records and data. He sees blockchain as a key accelerator for the transformation of the medical culture to serve patients through new forms of connectivity and service integration, ultimately reducing costs and improving outcomes for management of chronic disease. As a practice director for Unisys and lead consultant to the US Navy in the office of the NAVSEA CIO, he has been involved with IT strategic planning, enterprise architecture, systems analysis and software implementation for more than two decades. His award-winning book, From Invention to Innovation (Johns Hopkins Univ. Press) examined the foundations of innovation in telecommunications at AT&T. He has spoken frequently on networked behaviors and complex systems at IEEE conferences and other venues. Neil Wasserman has a PhD. from Harvard University, and an A.B. from Cornell University.