Surgery Workshop

The Surgery Workshop will explore how blockchain technology can transform access to surgical care by addressing challenges related to insurance, medical devices, and equipment through innovative solutions like health risk pooling. The workshop will focus on how blockchain can make surgeries more accessible and affordable by creating transparent, decentralized systems for managing insurance claims and ensuring the availability of essential surgical tools.

This workshop is critical because access to surgical care is often limited by financial constraints, inadequate insurance coverage, and a lack of necessary medical devices and equipment. Blockchain offers a unique solution through health risk pooling, which allows individuals and groups to share medical costs more efficiently, lowering the burden on patients needing surgeries. Additionally, blockchain can streamline the supply chain for medical devices, ensuring transparency, cost-effectiveness, and timely access to surgical equipment.

The 4-day process will focus on the following key areas:

Day 1-3: Blockchain Solutions for Surgical Access and Insurance Participants will engage in discussions and hands-on activities on:

• Access to Surgery through Health Risk Pooling: Explore how blockchain can enable decentralized health risk pools, where the financial burden of surgeries is shared among patients. This reduces out-of-pocket expenses and ensures that more people have access to essential surgical procedures.

• Insurance Reform through Blockchain: Discuss how blockchain technology can streamline insurance claims and payments, improving transparency and reducing delays. This will ensure that patients have quicker access to surgery, with claims processed efficiently through decentralized platforms.

• Supply Chain Management for Surgical Devices: Learn how blockchain can enhance the management and distribution of medical devices and equipment by creating transparent, immutable records. This ensures hospitals and clinics have the necessary tools for surgeries, improving overall healthcare delivery.

• Real-Time Surgical Data Management: Investigate how blockchain can support the secure sharing of patient data, allowing surgeons to access critical information in real-time, improving preoperative and postoperative care.

Each day will start with a keynote address from experts in blockchain, surgery, and health insurance, followed by interactive discussions and group problem-solving.

Day 4: Presentations and Action Plans On the final day, participants will:

• Present innovative solutions for improving surgical access through blockchain, focusing on the integration of health risk pooling, insurance reform, and better management of medical devices.

• Form teams or organizations to implement these solutions, identifying key stakeholders in healthcare, insurance, and technology to support the scaling and deployment of their ideas.

For more details on how this workshop will foster collaboration, view our YouTube video on the networking process and visit our Partners page to learn more about the organizations supporting our summit. By the end of the Surgery Workshop, participants will gain an in-depth understanding of how blockchain and health risk pooling can improve surgical access, reform insurance systems, and ensure timely availability of surgical equipment, ultimately enhancing healthcare outcomes for patients around the world.