Women in Blockchain: Making a Difference in Healthcare through Distributed Ledger Technology

Named as one of the top women, “leaving their mark on the MedTech field in health IT,” by Becker’s Hospital Review, Chrissa McFarlane is the Founder and CEO of Patientory, Inc., headquartered in Atlanta. McFarlane founded Patientory in December 2015 after seeing the need in the market for more personalized and secure consumer-driven health information management solutions.

With more than ten years’ experience in healthcare conducting research and managing teams, McFarlane has published international healthcare research, and helped to create breakthrough digital health companies that have provided services to companies such as Tumblr, Blue Apron, Casper, and Meetup.

Heather Flannery is a Co-Founder of Blockchain in Healthcare Global ("BiHG"), a new 501(c)6 trade association organized under the IEEE ISTO launching in August, 2018, FY19 Co-Chair of the global HIMSS Blockchain in Healthcare Task Force, an Innovation Fellow at EP3 Foundation, and an active consultant and speaker.

Prior to BiHG, she founded and led Obesity Prevention, Policy, and Management, Inc. ("Obesity PPM"), an innovative provider of disease management, population health, research administration, and information technology managed services for health systems in the Americas, and an early adopter of distributed ledger technology.