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Imagine your credentials as a physician being misused, making it impossible for you to work. Dr. Leah Houston went through this identity theft nightmare. This experience led her to start HPEC, a decentralized autonomous organization of practicing physicians—essentially a digital physician guild. Dr. Houston, an emergency medicine physician turned pioneer in digital identity security for doctors, speaks with host Dr. Erkeda DeRouen on this episode about how she turned crisis into innovation and resilience. They discuss physicians' staggering administrative challenges, the nuances of digital identity management, the burdensome credentialing process, and the importance of safeguarding one's medical credentials.   In this episode, you'll learn: Identity Management in Healthcare: Dr. Leah Houston shares her personal experience with Medicare and Medicaid identity fraud, shedding light on the often overlooked issue of identity management and credentialing in the medical field. She explains how administrative burdens can persist well beyond medical school and residency, impacting your ability to practice medicine. Innovation and Technological Solutions: Discover how Dr. Houston turned her challenges into a groundbreaking solution by developing a decentralized identity management system. This tool not only simplifies the credentialing process but also enhances security, allowing physicians to hold and share pre-verified data effortlessly. Exploring New Career Avenues: Our host, Dr. Erkeda DeRouen, emphasizes the importance of networking and exploring opportunities outside traditional medical pathways. If you're keen on innovation or startup environments, take Dr. Houston's advice to heart: immerse yourself in tech, reach out to industry leaders, and even consider internships to broaden your horizons and make an impact in the evolving healthcare landscape.   Jump into the conversation: 00:00 Introduction to The Prospective Doctor podcast with host Dr. Erkeda DeRouen and special guest Dr. Leah Houston 02:04 Impact of Medicare/Medicaid identity fraud on her ability to work 04:40 The burdensome nature of the current system 06:02 Introducing a digital wallet for doctors to hold pre-verified credentials 08:18 Importance of networking and collaboration with tech innovators 11:05 Encouraging students to have confidence in their problem-solving abilities 16:45 Importance of showing genuine interest and offering tangible help to emerging startups 18:50 Importance of fair contracts and seeking legal advice.   Where you can find Dr. Houston:  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/leahhoustonmd/  More on HPEC: https://www.hpec.io/    To learn more about how MedSchoolCoach can help you along your medical school journey, visit us at www.prospectivedoctor.com/   You can also reach us through our social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MedSchoolCoach  Dr. Erkeda's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/doctordgram/  YouTube: www.youtube.com/@MedSchoolCoach

The IEEE Boston Section made the pivot to online, as did the entire world, when the pandemic hit. However, even after coming out of COVID in 2023, this group kept several of their key conferences as completely virtual – HPEC being one of them. Why did they decide to keep this format, will it stay this way, and how can an event that was in-person from 1997-2019 survive (and thrive) as an online-only experience? Jeremy Kepner, Head of the MIT Lincoln Laboratory Supercomputing Center, chats with David to explain.

Dr. Houston is a Rebel Physician making a difference. I'm excited to share HPEC the Humanitarian Physicians Empowerment Community - a mission-driven business that serves the independent physician started by Rebel Emergency Physician: Dr. Leah Houston. HPEC is a tool that allows individual physicians to own their professional brand digitally in order for them to organize and provide competent coordinated physician-led care in a transparent third party free way. Over 450 physicians have invested in and co-designed a community-driven tech solution that empowers doctors and restores autonomy to the practice of medicine, and we are sharing it with our network to spread the word at the grassroots level. You can learn more about the identity wallet, and the organization and find the links to the free app at: https://www.hpec.io/HPEC also has the goal to stay physician owned, and any physician who is interested in supporting physician autonomy can affordably invest and become an HPEC shareholder at: https://www.startengine.com/offering/hpec. IMPORTANT: this rare and time limited opportunity will only be available until next week. it closes at midnight on October 28, 2023, so join for free as a Member today, or consider becoming an owner alongside hundreds of other Physician Investors through our crowdfund.If you want to learn more consider signing up for one of their other meetups also happening this week: Tuesday, October 24, 2023 9:00 PM EST, 6:00 PM PST Register Here Thursday, October 26, 2023 6:00 PM EST, 3:00 PM PST Register Here where Dr. Houston will be there to answer any questions!

In this episode, Alfredo & Elaine are joined by Dr. Leah Houston. Dr. Houston practiced emergency medicine across the US for nearly 10 years before becoming an entrepreneur in the physician autonomy and digital privacy space. As locum tenens physician she worked in 11 different health systems and 3 different states. She experienced multiple times first-hand what all physicians experience: the administrative burden of the onboarding and credentialing process. She also experienced misappropriation of her credentials and professional identity theft committed by one of the health systems she worked for. That experience led her to start HPEC, a digital identity and credential data wallet for practicing physicians. Main Street Matters is part of the Salem Podcast Network - new episodes debut every Wednesday & Friday. For more information visit JobCreatorsNetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Leah Houston, MD practiced emergency medicine for nearly ten years - in 11 different health systems and 3 different states. But credentialing challenges and losing control of her professional identity drove her to build one potential solution. She hopes HPEC will put physicians back in control of their professional credentials. For more information about HPEC: hpec.io Support the podcast: www.fixmoralinjury.org Twitter - @‌fixmoralinjury Instagram - @‌moralinjury Facebook - @‌moralinjuryofhc LinkedIn - Moral Injury of Healthcare  

What if physicians had a digital identity wallet to store and share credentials? I'm excited to chat with Dr. Houston about this today and the future of healthcare. Dr. Leah Houston graduated from Albany Medical College for Medical School and chose to stay at Albany to complete her training in Emergency Medicine. She is the Founder of HPEC, an organization dedicated to empowering physicians through decentralized identity. Her primary focus is automating credentialing, enabling physicians to work and move freely. In a rapidly growing healthcare sector with over 20 million employees in the US, Dr. Houston recognizes the increasing turnover faced by healthcare systems due to dissatisfaction. With HPEC, physicians have control over their digitized and automatically verified credentials, allowing them to onboard, open, and build their private practices without the friction of currently available legacy-driven credentialing systems. As a product founder, she is a nationally requested speaker and author on self-sovereign identity in healthcare. She also recently completed training in Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare through MIT, concluding in July 2023. Connect with Dr. Houston Website: https://www.hpec.io/ Website: https://www.evercred.com/ Linkedin Personal https://www.linkedin.com/in/leahhoustonmd/ Radu: https://www.linkedin.com/in/radu-popovici-2ab47615/ Seth: https://www.linkedin.com/in/seth-back-74566518/ HPEC https://www.linkedin.com/company/hpecid/ Evercred: https://www.linkedin.com/company/myevercred Twitter Personal https://twitter.com/LeahHoustonMD HPEC https://twitter.com/HPECid evercred https://twitter.com/evercred Facebook Personal https://www.facebook.com/LeahHoustonMD/ HPEC https://www.facebook.com/HPECid/ HPEC Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/2059985940890704/ Evercred: https://www.facebook.com/myevercred Instagram Personal https://www.instagram.com/leahhoustonmd/ HPEC https://www.instagram.com/hpecid/ Evecred: https://www.instagram.com/myevercred/ TikTok Leah Houston, MD → https://www.tiktok.com/@leahhoustonmd Angel List HPEC: https://angel.co/company/hpec Evercred: https://angel.co/company/evercred-1 Crunchbase HPEC: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/hpec-a109 Evercred: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/evercred Techmap Personal: : https://www.thetechmap.com/Profile/82909 GitHub Personal: https://github.com/DrHouston Company: https://github.com/HPECid YouTube Chanel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmYPzarR2xdCsE4ncqybvcA --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/urcaringdocs/message

Dr. Leah Houston and Dr. Mehnaz Hyder, of HPEC speak about the ever increasing problem of administrative overhead and how to solve this issue, through an innovative idea of a decentralized platform for physicians. The platform would allow physicians to store their credentials in an immutable database, free from fraud, where insurance companies and others can draw from to verify identity. Physician (and all clinician) credentialing is a massive problem and requires hours of administrative time, which costs money, and slows patients from being seen earlier. When this issue is fixed, patients also stand to benefit too, not only through costs saved, but by being seen earlier, and by reducing physician burnout. Host: Bruce Bassi MDMore resources, including a full transcript, can be found at our podcast website: https://www.telepsychhealth.com/futurepsychiatrypodcast/We are always looking to grow and learn more about the field of tech and mental health. If you have an idea for the show, want to suggest a guest, or have a suggestion, please feel to message us through our website's contact page. If you want to support the show, please like on Facebook, and follow us on Instagram, and Tiktok and subscribe on Youtube.As always, the content is for educational purposes and is not medical advice. If you are having a medical or psychiatric emergency please contact 911.

What you'll get out of this episodeListen in as host Tim Fitzpatrick chats with Dr. Leah Houston (Founder of HPEC) about the importance of decentralized ownership in the physician community amid the changing landscape of data security and transparency.In this episode you'll discover: How more data and information to both the patients and physicians can help improve the care of patients and save billions of dollars in exploratory care. More information leads to a faster diagnosis and better choices. Why the Humanitarian Physicians Empowerment Community (HPEC) is focused on building a future healthcare ecosystem optimized through open access trusted space for the physician community to easily connect to the patients who need them the most. How the Electronic Medical Record (EMR) evolved from a communication tool to the data surveillance system we see today, and how we can fix it. How HPEC is working to rebuild the physician community in an era of massive turnover. Quotables“As Physicians, we are the only ones who took the Hippocratic oath. The oath to put patients first and we take that oath very seriously, so if there is no autonomy and agency for the one who actually care about the patients first, then how are patients going to be cared for?” @leahhoustonMD #HPEC on Ep21 @T-Minus10 w/ @trfitzpatrickRecommended Resources Learn more about HPEC (HPEC.io) Dr. Leah Houston on the mission of HPEC (HPEC on YouTube) Web3 & Healthcare (Hashed Health) How Web3.0 might revolutionize healthcare (by Abhishek Rungta in Forbes) How NFTs, DAOs, Web3 and the metaverse impact health care (by Dr. Christopher Loo in KevinMD) HPEC on TwitterHPEC on LinkedInAbout Your HostTim Fitzpatrick is the CEO of IKONA Health, a company using neurobiology and immersive technology to improve how patients learn about their care and treatment options. Tim co-founded IKONA based on his own patient experiences while serving in the US Navy and now in the VA health system. He has served as Principal Investigator on multiple federal research grants, has co-authored papers on learning science, VR, and mental health in the age of COVID-19, and has partnered with top healthcare investors and institutions including the National Science Foundation, Department of Defense, National Artificial Intelligence Institute, StartUp Health, On Deck, FundRx, MATTER and NVIDIA.T-Minus 10 is a part of the Slice of Healthcare podcast network. 

Help us grow by liking this episode, sharing it, and subscribing to the podcast! Leah Houston, MD, practiced emergency medicine across the US for nearly 10 years before becoming an entrepreneur in the physician autonomy and digital privacy space. She experienced the administrative burden of the onboarding and credentialing process first-hand, and that experience led her to start HPEC, a digital identity and credential data wallet for practicing physicians. The HPEC wallet is a decentralized application now available on the app and Google Play stores that makes the physician the primary source of ownership and control of their professional credentials, and data. If you enjoy this interview please subscribe to the podcast and share it with your friends, and don't forget to check out our website, futuratipodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For this episode of Entrepreneur RX, John had the privilege of featuring the amazing Dr. Leah Houston, an emergency trained physician, and founder of HPEC and Evercred. HPEC is a platform leveraging blockchain technology that allows physicians to store decentralized identities.Leah shared her experiences with identity theft and blockchain in this episode. She explains how HPEC started, the confusing processes and verifications required in healthcare, the need to restore physician autonomy by alleviating redundant credentialing systems, and the importance of Evercred. This credential issuing system is interoperable with HPEC. Leah shares a lot of knowledge, tune in and enjoy!

Leah Houston, MD is a serial entrepreneur, emergency medicine physician, and activist. She is the founder of:HPEC: Humanistic Physician Empowerment Community is a platform physicians can use to own and store their own digital identity and credentials. A secure, self-sovereign identity is the foundation for restoring physician autonomy. (Find out why!) EverCred: The system used by institutions to manage certification data and issue physician credentials that puts physicians in control of the primary source verification process. Dr. Houston joins me on the podcast with Florida attorney Abbigail Webb. Ms. Webb raises an alarm about the loss of physician autonomy and points to the striking differences in professional autonomy between the medical profession and the legal profession. She raises questions about why non-physicians are in control of healthcare institutions and physician practices. She underscores how compromised physicians are in their ability to meet their fiduciary duty to patients because of the obvious conflicts of interest in healthcare systems run by non-physicians. In the U.S., only lawyers are allowed to own law firms—in marked contrast to ACA language (link to glossary below) that prohibits physicians from owning hospitals.She draws additional comparisons between medicine and law:•Legal oversight bodies such as State Bars and State Supreme Courts are made up of attorneys—unlike medicine where regulatory bodies have a variety of competing agendas creating oversight policies for the medical profession. •Law firms are not publicly traded because lawyers are not allowed to be governed by or beholden to the interests of non-lawyer shareholders. Contrast that with the behemoth Fortune 50 healthcare systems driven by a profit motive, not medical professional values.•Lawyers are not subject to non-compete clauses because it is deemed unethical to restrict clients' ability to freely seek legal assistance from whomever they choose. The 70% of physicians who are employed are very often hamstrung in their career decision-making by non-compete clauses.•The legal profession closely safeguards the practice of law, not allowing non-lawyers or paraprofessionals to hang out a legal shingle or use terms like lawyer, attorney, or Esq. Not so in medicine, where consumers and patients are unclear, sometimes misled, about who is a physician.Ms. Webb believes quality of care for patients would be served by physician leadership of healthcare and she is an advocate for the digital solutions that Dr. Houston proposes.What are those solutions? Moving ownership of physician credentials to physicians themselves. This can be accomplished by storing credentials in an immutable, immediately accessible, blockchain wallet. A self-sovereign identity (SSI) means physicians themselves retain control and thus provide the primary source verification of their credentials and decide who has access and for how long. HPEC provides this capacity for physicians to have a wallet containing their credentials (and other digital assets). Dr. Houston's other company, EverCred, provides a mechanism and platform for certifying bodies to issue credentials directly into decentralized identity wallet systems (like HPEC, but others as well—as long as they use rigorous established security standards). These systems are in development with pilot projects underway including a physician training program that is issuing credentials directly into HPEC.The use of blockchain for establishing secure self-sovereign identities (SSI) for physicians opens the door to Dr. Houston's bigger vision of physician autonomy and leadership. This includes: physicians creating their own referral networks; establishing patient records that belong to the patient (and not a healthcare system that uses patient data for their own profit-motivated purposes); and physicians establishing specialty-specific or other groups that advance physicians' professional interests. She refers to the latter element as a “digital physician guild.”Click the link to the 12/28/2021 newsletter https://bit.ly/LTLmoreinfofor a glossary of blockchain and episode #33 terms. Meet the GuestsLeah Houston, MDDr. Houston is an emergency medicine physician and entrepreneur who has been a part of the blockchain and distributed ledger technology community since 2012. She is the founder of HPEC, building a platform to revolutionize the way physicians interact with health systems, insurance companies, and most importantly patients. HPEC gives practicing physicians ownership of their professional brand in a digital space through blockchain enabled self-sovereign digital credentials and identities. This will create employment mobility for physicians which will provide a mechanism for them to restore their autonomy and control over the sacred doctor patient relationship.Dr. Houston is active on social media and is an internationally requested speaker and author on the topic of self-sovereign identity in healthcare. https://twitter.com/LeahHoustonMDhttps://twitter.com/HPECidHPEC-Humanitarian Physicians Empowerment Community https://www.hpec.io/Abbigail Webb, JD Ms. Webb is a Florida Licensed attorney and General Counsel for a multistate automotive organization, with a background in litigation and business, consumer finance, and banking law. She has expertise in dispute resolution and enterprise risk reduction. She is an economic empowerment and financial literacy teacher, as well as a Bitcoin technology advocate.https://www.floridabar.org/

As an Emergency Physician, Dr. Leah Houston previously worked in Emergency Departments all over the country for almost 10 years. During that time, she observed firsthand the harm this current system does to both physicians and patients. These experiences afforded her a deep understanding of the problems that plague the United States healthcare system, barriers we face to correction, and the importance of a decentralized solution. Having been a part of the blockchain and distributed ledger technology community since 2012, Dr. Houston is now a nationally requested speaker and author on the topic of self-sovereign identity in healthcare.Links and MentionsHPEC LinkedIn: LeahHoustonMDTwitter: LeahHoustonMD

Leah Houston (@LeahHoustonMD), MD, an emergency physician and founder of HPEC (@HPECid) as well as Evercred, explains blockchain as a decentralizer of physician and patient data and how it will be applied ubiquitously across the healthcare system. Dr. Houston shares and makes the case for how blockchain stores medical data and keeps the ownership in the hands of physicians, offers a solution to issuing and maintaining digital credentials for healthcare professionals, and highlights how physician interest and involvement are crucial to “reclaiming ownership of the profession and our individual identities.” Visit the HPEC website to receive your invitation. https://www.hpec.io/ Visit Dr. Houston's Evercred website. https://www.evercred.com/ Check out Chadi's website for all Healthcare Unfiltered episodes and other content. www.chadinabhan.com/ Watch all Healthcare Unfiltered episodes on Youtube. www.youtube.com/channel/UCjiJPTpIJdIiukcq0UaMFsA

Doctors play an essential role in our society as they work to cure and heal patients. Even more so as the pandemic has struck the world we rely on the medical services even more. Unfortunately, there continues to be a lack of medical staff with systems in play that can delay onboarding even more. Leah Houston MD, founder of HPEC, has worked with a driving passion to combat the challenges faced in the industry. HPEC has developed a secure standards-based open-sourced technology that gives physicians control over their professional digital identity. Their wallet stores verifiable medical credentials and connects physicians to a secure and private referral network. With this innovative technology, there are challenges faced with growth and expansion as people often fear the unknown. Leah has worked to build a powerful brand and build their own referral network with their technology in order to encourage growth for their innovative technology. With the world digitizing, Leah aims to get physicians on board to this new age of technology that will benefit both physicians and their patients.

Dr Leah Houston is the founder of HPEC. HPEC is giving practicing physicians ownership of their professional brand in a digital space through blockchain enabled self-sovereign digital credentials and identities. This will create employment mobility for physicians which will provide a mechanism for them to restore their autonomy and control over the sacred doctor patient relationship. As an Emergency Physician, I previously worked in Emergency Departments all over the country for almost 10 years. During that time I observed first hand the harm this current system does to both physicians and patients. These experiences afforded me a deep understanding of the problems that plague the US healthcare system, and the barriers we face to correction. In addition to my Medical Degree, I received my undergraduate in molecular biology and biochemistry. I have experience in genomics and proteomics research. I am also a real estate investor, a peace accelerator, and an advocate for early childhood education reform. I also have foundational experience in public policy, and have lobbied for many issues surrounding healthcare reform and education. I have worked in public policy and advocacy throughout my life, and continue to do so. Also I enjoy my work in social acquisitions as a connector. As a humanitarian and philanthropist I learned how more happens when my energy is spent connecting two or more people with a common goal. If you want to connect with me please send a short note as to why, to make sure I don't miss you! Join Leahs community at https://www.hpec.io/ -------------- Looking to build your online business? Grow your email list? Learn about how to start a coaching business? Resources, courses, training and the business tools to make it happen. Learn more at https://sharonmackconsulting.com ___________________________________________________________________________________________ This podcast is designed to help entrepreneurs start and build their businesses. Learn more at Female Physicians Entrepreneurs If you are a female physician join us at https://www.facebook.com/groups/FemalePhysicianEntrepreneurs/ Thank you again for listening, please share with your friends and subscribe to our podcast. If you have any questions reach out support@femalephysicianentepreneur.com Sincerely, Sharon T McLaughlin MD FACS #entrepreneurship #femalephysicians #business #businessgrowth. #realestate #realestatesyndication #womenphysician

Dr Leah Houston is the founder of HPEC. HPEC is giving practicing physicians ownership of their professional brand in a digital space through blockchain enabled self-sovereign digital credentials and identities. This will create employment mobility for physicians which will provide a mechanism for them to restore their autonomy and control over the sacred doctor patient relationship. As an Emergency Physician, I previously worked in Emergency Departments all over the country for almost 10 years. During that time I observed first hand the harm this current system does to both physicians and patients. These experiences afforded me a deep understanding of the problems that plague the US healthcare system, and the barriers we face to correction. In addition to my Medical Degree, I received my undergraduate in molecular biology and biochemistry. I have experience in genomics and proteomics research. I am also a real estate investor, a peace accelerator, and an advocate for early childhood education reform. I also have foundational experience in public policy, and have lobbied for many issues surrounding healthcare reform and education. I have worked in public policy and advocacy throughout my life, and continue to do so. Also I enjoy my work in social acquisitions as a connector. As a humanitarian and philanthropist I learned how more happens when my energy is spent connecting two or more people with a common goal. If you want to connect with me please send a short note as to why, to make sure I don't miss you! Join Leahs community at https://www.hpec.io/ -------------- Looking to build your online business? Grow your email list? Learn about how to start a coaching business? Resources, courses, training and the business tools to make it happen. Learn more at https://sharonmackconsulting.com ___________________________________________________________________________________________ This podcast is designed to help entrepreneurs start and build their businesses. Learn more at Female Physicians Entrepreneurs If you are a female physician join us at https://www.facebook.com/groups/FemalePhysicianEntrepreneurs/ Thank you again for listening, please share with your friends and subscribe to our podcast. If you have any questions reach out support@femalephysicianentepreneur.com Sincerely, Sharon T McLaughlin MD FACS #entrepreneurship #femalephysicians #business #businessgrowth. #realestate #realestatesyndication #womenphysician

In this episode we speak to Emergency Medicine physician and founder of the Humanitarian Physician’s Empowerment Community, Dr. Leah Houston.    In this episode (All Times Approximate)   5:00 Physician’s rights and control have been lost slowly but surely 13:00 a half million dollars raised from physicians; how to invest in HPEC 20:00 Talking bitcoin, cryptocurrency, and blockchain 24:00 Using technology to make complicated processes simple; quick win for your career 28:00 What’s next for HPEC?   Show Sponsor, EH3 Coffee,   HPEC   Dr. Leah Houston   Licensed To Live episode with Dr. Leah Houston (recorded 2018)  

SHOW NOTES: This week next level entrepreneur Dr. Leah Houston and I took the conversation to another level as we chatted about taking our power and autonomy back through Blockchain, and how she is leading this movement. Highlights from the conversation: Dr. Leah Houston - Emergency medicine doctor / founder & CEO of HPEC (Humanitarian Physicians Empowerment Community) Decentralization of physician’s credentials / blockchain - Over the past 20 or 30 years, physician-patient interaction has been completely altered. We were instructed on how to document and share the digital information about our patients. All of that information is now analyzed in order to find ways to deny payment to doctors, and at the same time deny services to patients. - As physicians, it's our duty to protect that information and to have control of that information, for the sake of the relationship with our patients. Blockchain - When we talk about any digital communication, whether it be through a cell phone, on a Facebook group, via email, etc… they are centralized (all of the data is in, controlled by, and belongs to a specific platform). Blockchain is a way to record information and provide secure direct communications without going through a centralized identity. - Blockchain is great for physicians, as it creates an opportunity to document what happens with patients and transfer that information directly into a patient’s digital record, keep a copy to ourselves, and not share it with anyone else. It can also help us keep a secure communication between colleagues. (HPEC covers this) Decentralization of physician’s credentials - It’s important to start by obtaining our digital identities and asserting that we are who we say we are in the digital space. We have a license, DEA numbers, Medicaid, Medicare.... all of them are part of our digital credentials. They can be verified by any institution, and blockchain allows us to keep them in one place, available. (HPEC covers this) - There are movements, such as campaigns in GoFundMe, to make certifications a lifetime. Institutions shouldn’t be able to profit from physician’s knowledge and time. (HPEC supports this) Catch up with Dr. Houston by connecting with her in one of the following ways: 1. Social Media Handles ◦ Twitter @hpecid @leahhoustonmd ◦ Facebook HPECid ◦ Instagram hpecid ◦ LinkedIn hpecid 2. Website https://hpec.io/ 3. Ways to invest or participate w/ HPEC.IO. ◦ Fundopolis Join the Movement- You can join over 200 other revolutionary physicians and become an owner of this platform through the HPEC website for a just $250 Here: https://hpec.io/invest-now/ You can also get on the waiting list to be one of the first to have access to this technology when it becomes available here: https://hpec.io/join-the-waiting-list See you on the next one! Hosted by: Dr. Maiysha Clairborne Looking for a Coach or Mastermind to Join? Ready to Take Your Career, Business, and Life to the Next Level? If you want to Learn more about Dr. Maiysha's coaching, courses, and masterminds. Visit www.DrMaiysha.com. Choose from of our Free Mini Online Masterclasses on Mindset Mastery, Manifestation, and Next Level Entrepreneurship Right on the Home page to start your journey now.

Dr. Leah Houston is the founder of HPEC, and a board-certified Emergency Physician. While practicing emergency medicine across the US for nearly 10 years she recognized a common problem: uncompensated administrative burdens related to physician employment and credentialing are a leading cause of administrative waste and physician burnout. She also realized that distributed ledger technology could solve the obstructive regulatory problems in healthcare by creating a decentralized community of physicians. So, she began working on the project and named it HPEC - the Humanitarian Physicians Empowerment Community. HPEC is building a platform that will give every physician a self-sovereign digital identity attached to their credentials in order to create a democratic digital physicians guild. HPEC will streamline the current antiquated and laborious process of credentialing, reduce administrative waste, improve access to care and give physicians sovereign ownership of their data and employment rights. The organization will also create an opportunity for physicians to communicate more efficiently about policy, and practice in order to improve patient care.   In presenting a solution that has the potential to alleviate the administrative waste for health systems, government and practicing physicians Dr. Houston is a recognized and requested national speaker on the topic of decentralized identity as it relates to healthcare. Her work was featured as a part of the first HIMSS Blockchain and Healthcare Textbook, published in 2019. A lifelong advocate, innovator and investor she has also spent lobbying for public policy and healthcare reform. She understands the problems that plague the healthcare system from the inside and out and has dedicated her time to repairing the current global healthcare crisis. HPEC will restore physician autonomy to the practice of medicine, will begin in the United States and expand. Show notes at https://rxforsuccesspodcast.com/30

Dr. Leah Houston, founder and CEO of an early-stage startup called Humanitarian Physicians Empowerment Community. If you are a doctor or physician, this episode is for you. Her solution is to develop a platform that uses self-sovereign digital identities to allow physicians to manage their own provable credentials, cutting the administrative waste involved with provider credentialing. Show Notes •Introduction to Leah's background •What drives you to the healthcare industry? •How did you first hear about blockchain technology? •As a trained physician, when did you realize the flaws in provider credentialing system? •What is the vision for HPEC? •Importance of Self-sovereign Identity •What is a DID? https://www.w3.org/TR/did-core/ •Explain the current process for a doctor to gain medical privileges in a clinic or hospital? •What problems exist for healthcare professionals in regard to provider credentialing? •Blockchain adoption and awareness in healthcare •What are the biggest barriers to adoption? •What does it mean when people say blockchain can provide more trust? •How can HPEC affect the traditional credentialing workflow of a health system? •Can decentralized provider credentialing improve overall digital health technology adoption? •What kind of traction have you had so far? •Can you describe your technology stack? •Cost to build? •What is HPEC's business model? •How did you find your crowdfunding platform? •Physician investors •What other companies are working on similar projects? How are you different? •Outlook for 2021 and beyond •Most influential book you've read – Zero to One by Peter Thiel •Will the future of decentralized identity be hardware based or bio-metrics? •Final Takeaways Health Unchained News Corner https://www.hibcc.org/mediledger-2/ The Health Industry Business Communications Council (HIBCC) recently announced that its Health Industry Number (HIN) System is now available to registered HIN licensees via Chronicled’s blockchain-enabled MediLedger Network. By using Mediledger, HIN pharma industry licensees will both be able to access and use real-time HIN data and incorporate it directly into their live business processes. Manufacturers, Distributors, and GPOs on the MediLedger Network use its Contracts & Chargebacks Solution to ensure pricing contracts are aligned. The solution guarantees that distributors always have valid pricing for customers (Hospitals, pharmacies, clinics, etc.) and that chargebacks are accurate. I’ve interviewed Susanne in episode 66 of Health Unchained. I highly recommend you listen to that episode to learn more about her vision and plans for Chronicled and the MediLedger Network. Health Unchained Links Website: https://healthunchained.org Telegram: t.me/healthunchained Twitter: twitter.com/Healthunchaind Bert’s Blockchain and Healthcare Weekly Newsletter: https://bert.substack.com/

In the modern digital world, we’re all accustomed to having our personal information online. From our ID numbers, credit cards, birth certificates, cellphone numbers, to, in the case of a doctor, the MD at the end of your name, whether you completed a residency or board certification, or have a license to practice medicine. When our credentials are in the hands of a third party, we can unknowingly set ourselves up for fraud, waste, and abuse. On this episode of Prosperous Doc, we welcome Dr. Leah Houston, a Locum Tenens doctor who faced the stressful ordeal of having her physician identity stolen and abused. After pursuing litigation to resolve the matter, Dr. Leah Houston asked herself, “How many people is this happening to every day who haven’t left the state? How many people is this happening to who are just working in a hospital, not even knowing that their professional brand and their credentials are being used on patients that they don’t even know about?” (5:52) As a result of this ordeal, Dr. Houston became curious about stolen identity and fraud and began to investigate, discovering (https://sovrin.org/faq/what-is-self-sovereign-identity/). Self – as in, it’s yours, sovereign - owned and controlled by you, identity, “it defines who you are digitally.” (7:47) Understanding how powerful this resource could be, Dr. Houston founded HPEC (Humanitarian Physicians Empowerment Community), a software service where all the information regarding both doctor and patient is stored; this way, if a person goes to a clinic, they provide their doctor with their personal data without having to go through the tedious process of document transactions. This ensures all of your information is in your control. “We’re creating a decentralized network of physician services, where all of the physicians’ specialists can come together, can own their identity, own their right to work, kick out the third parties who are not only lacking value, but essentially are surveilling and capitalizing off of our practice and suffering of our patients really is what’s going on. And we can restore autonomy and trust and privacy to the doctor, patient relationship again, that’s what this is about.” While the infrastructure of the medical industrial complex is resistant to change, Dr. Houston believes there is hope in this new technology to fix the system. (13:29) Financial Wellness TipThis episode’s Financial Wellness Tip focuses on the student loan arena. Ever since the CARES Act (https://home.treasury.gov/policy-issues/cares) suspended payments in late March 2020 to address the COVID-19 pandemic, many question what their payments should be. Here are a few things you can do to help your case: (1) obtain a copy of your payment history; (2) be sure to recertify your income and submit your employment certification form at least annually, or whenever you switch employers; and (3) be sure to find a source for up to date information, whether that’s your loan servicer, a conventional news outlet, or a trusted advisor who specializes in student loans. (16:30) For more information on Dr. Leah Houston’s organization HPEC, visit Twitter (https://twitter.com/LeahHoustonMD). Want to find out your student debt game plan? Take our Student Loan Quiz (http://sdtplanning.com/student-loan-quiz) and figure out the best student loan repayment option for you.   Prosperous Doc podcast by Spaugh Dameron Tenny highlights real-life stories from doctors and dentist to encourage and inspire listeners through discussions of professional successes and failures in addition to personal stories and financial wellness advice. Spaugh Dameron Tenny is a comprehensive financial planning firm serving doctors and dentist in Charlotte, NC. To find out more about Spaugh Dameron Tenny, visit our website at (mailto:atshane@whitecoatwell.com) or on Twitter. CRN202209-270893

In episode 249 of The Happy Doc, Taylor speaks to Leah Houston, MD. Leah is specialized in Emergency Medicine and is the founder of the Humanitarian Physician Empowerment Community (HPEC). HPEC is a physician-owned community that utilizes blockchain technology giving power back to the physician and their data. With HPEC, physicians can upload data without third-party interference due to the nature of the technology. To learn more visit HPEC.io Please note: HPEC is actively seeking investors, so please check out how you can get involved on the website! Transcription and show notes available on: thehappydoc.com This episode is sponsored by: allglobalcircle.com

Leah Houston is an Emergency Physician who has been following blockchain development since 2012 and now designed a solution that would empower doctors, make their credentialing easier which would simplify transitions from one hospital to the next one if one wished to switch jobs.    HPEC is restoring agency and autonomy to the physician-patient relationship with self-sovereign (physician-owned and controlled) digital identities and verifiable credentials. The key thing is that the solution is returning autonomy to physicians and eliminates third party interference from the doctor-patient relationship.    In this discussion, you will be able to hear how credentialing works in the US, what are the powerful forces that are hurting healthcare, and why doctors and patients should regain control over their communication and treatment choices.   Episode recap: www.facesofdigitalhealth.com/blog/f092-how-can-blockchain-bring-back-autonomy-to-the-physician-patient-relationship-leah-houston-hpec

We start by discussing the latest news about the Senate's on-again off-again attempt to reauthorize Section 215 with an amendment that would prevent the FBI from being able to search our search and browser history without a warrant. We then welcome Leah Houston, MD, onto the podcast to talk about her journey from Emergency Physician to Medical Privacy Advocate. Leah is the CEO of HPEC, the Humanitarian Physicians Empowerment Community, which provides doctors with an easy way to organize in a digital space while also maintaining sovereign independence from centralized hierarchy and control.

Dr. Corsi begins part two of the TeleMD Telethon for today with a conclusion of his discussion with Dr. Andrew Bostom. Arthur describes again, his personal experience and recovery from COVID-9 using the hydroxychloroquine protocol with Zinc and azethromycine. We were honored to be joined by Dr. Vladimir Zelenko, developer of the HCVQ protocol which is saving so many lives. Dr. Zelenko is confident that the truth will come out that the treatment that he has used with his own patients, with variants being used world-wide, show that the path being forced upon doctors and patients by those motivated by power, profit, and control are losing the narrative to one based upon life not death. Early and aggressive treatment used by caring physicians means life, and late and passive treatment prescirbed by Fauci Inc., means death. Dr. Karladine Graves joined the panel and once again emphasized the value of preserving the doctor-patient relationship as the cornerstone of human health. Dr. Graves invited Dr. Leah Houston to amplify the importance of a human well being perspective rather than depending upon government "leaders" and other interests in not only treatment of individuals, but in giving physicians a voice as well. Dr. Houston has launched an effort to unlock the future of healthcare. https://hpec.io/ HPEC solves credentialing and licensure processes that keep physicians tied to third-party systems. Dr. Graves then shared the troubling direction of government healthcare agencies, which appear now to be taking an even more aggressive role in creating and globalist network. https://www.nhsx.nhs.uk/ Tune in Monday through Friday at 11:00am EDT for another show. Visit our sister website, http://www.theprayerfulpatriot.com dedicated to faith and prayer. https://www.patreon.com/jeromecorsi/ https://www.subscribestar.com/jerome_corsi/

  It isn't often that people walk into hospitals and ask themselves how does this thing work? In fact, the same can be said for those who work in hospitals too. Whether you're a doctor, nurse, phlebotomist, orderly, or patient - how the whole enterprise works is usually a mystery. Also, what protections are there for patients so that they don't have people who are grossly negligent or dangerous caring for them? My guest today is David Leonard, Chief Legal Officer for the Spectrum System. Spectrum is a West Michigan based hospital system that currently comprises 15 hospitals, employed doctor group, clinics, laboratories, and health insurance plan (Priority Health). David has been with Spectrum since 2002 and has helped them navigate the merger and acquisition phases of their growth. Not only is the financial merger of hospitals and organizations difficult but trying to coordinate their governance and culture can be even harder. It is the way hospitals run through a system of hospital boards and medical staff boards that makes their organization complicated and sometimes disjointed. It is a dance they have to do together to deliver the right care to the right patient with the right facilities and equipment. We discuss the credentialing process which is a term used to describe the process of determining whether someone is fit to practice in the hospital. Along with that comes the disciplinary or corrective process to remove those who don't practice medicine well. That is best seen by the story of Dr. Christopher Duntsch from Texas. He was practicing in numerous hospitals in the Dallas area and none of them were willing to remove him until Herculean efforts were performed by some colleagues. David Leonard is the Chief Legal Officer for Spectrum Health System in West Michigan. show notes @dmleonard2001: David Leonard's twitter handle. Dr. Death: The story of Dr. Christopher Duntsch and his trail of bodies in a number of Texas hospitals. Spectrum Health System: The hospital system that David Leonard works as Chief Legal Officer. Episode 018: Dr. Houston describes her venture to create HPEC - a way of using the block chain to secure credentials for doctors. Made Simply Web Site Creations: This is the great, affordable website service that built my wife's podcast site. I cannot recommend this company more to someone looking for creating a website. Always Andy's Mom: Home of my wife, Marcy's, podcast for parents grieving or those looking to help them. YouTube for Paradocs: Here you can watch the video of my late son singing his solo on the Paradocs YouTube page. Patreon - Become a show supporter today and visit my Patreon page for extra bonus material. Every dollar raised goes towards the production and promotion of the show.    

Leah Houston, MD says a hospital stole her identity. To prevent this from happening to other physicians Dr Houston wants utilize block chain technology to create a self-soverign digitial identity for doctors. HPEC website: www.hpec.io Twitter: @LeahHoustonMD & @HPECid

Join us today as we speak with Dr. Leah Houston, Founder at HPEC about the power of decentralization.

In today's episode, we speak with Dr. Leah Houston about her revolutionary new business HPEC- the Humanitarian Physicians Empowerment Community. Her business is using Blockchain technology to build a platform that alleviates the third-party roadblocks that erode our patient-physician relationships. Listen as as she shares her expertise in this topic and hear all about the future of healthcare. In this episode, you will learn: What is HPEC and why did she start it? What is Blockchain technology and how it can be helpful to physicians. How this technology could reduce or eliminate fraud in the system. Why she feels that cutting out the middle man in the system can help physicians to find joy in medicine again. What is the Decentralized Autonomous Organization of Doctors or Doctors DAO? Why she feels that patient portable electronic health records are important. How she feels that the digital health revolution will help physicians take care of patients in a superior way. Leah Houston, M.D. is a board certified emergency physician. While practicing emergency medicine across the U.S. for nearly 10 years, she recognized a common problem. Uncompensated administrative burdens related physician employment and credentialing are a leading cause of administrative waste and physician burnout. She began HPEC in 2018 when realizing that Blockchain could solve the obstructive regulatory problems in healthcare with its distributed ledger technology. HPEC is building a platform that will give every physician a self-sovereign digital identity attached to their credentials in order to create a decentralized autonomous organization of physicians and surgeons. This is essentially a democratic physician's guild. HPEC will streamline the current laborious process of credentialing, reduce administrative waste, improve access to care and give physicians sovereign ownership of their data and employment rights. The organization will also create an opportunity for physicians to communicate more efficiently about policy, practice and, in turn, improve patient care. Links we discussed in the show: Check out Leah's Blockchain based business at: HPEC.io. Special thank you to this week's show sponsor: The White Coat Investor's new course Fire Your Financial Advisor! Thank you for listening to the Hippocratic Hustle! I know that time is your most valuable resource so I really appreciate you spending some of it with me. If you enjoyed today's show, please share it! If you'd like to help me improve and grow the podcast, send your suggestions to: Carrie@HippocraticHustle.com Lastly, don't forget to subscribe to the podcast, so you won't miss an episode!

Dr. Houston began her career as an emergency room physician in New York, California and Florida, before growing frustrated that doctors were not given the freedom to practice as they wish as they are bound by so many regulatory and corporate constraints. She left the hospital arena to found HPEC, a company providing blockchain technology to doctors and providers so doctors can finally make timely, instant decisions based on the entire body of historical information available.  Tune in to see how this improves the level of care provided, as well as saves money for both your company and your family!  

Dr. Leah Houston is a board-certified Emergency Physician that enjoyed the high-intensity work and high-level problem solving required but came to realize that reactionary emergency medicine was missing the mark. Instead, she decided to focus more on prevention of disease through her own private practice and building Humanitarian Physicians Empowerment Community (100% physician-owned blockchain technology platform). We talk today about feeling disempowered as physicians, our digital identities as physicians and how HPEC plans to protect physicians. Follow HPEC on FB - Twitter - company website: https://hpec.io/ Follow Dr. Leah Houston on FB - IG - TW - practice website: http://leahhoustonmd.com/dr-houston/

Dr. Leah Houston is our guest today. She is currently an Emergency Room doctor and co-founder of a company that's applying blockchain technology to help fix healthcare. She is co-founder of HPEC.io which is a tech company that helps doctors to create self-sovereign identies on the blockchain. This helps to reduce costs, prevent fraud and put the control of a doctor's identity back into their hand's. We discuss why centralization of healthcare is a threat to everyone's privacy and pockebook and how decetnralization can put the power back into the hands of the people. Dr. Houston and I discuss the history of Bitcoin, what is the blockchain, what are self-sovereign identities and how these technologies can cut healthcare costs, increase access and improve outcomes. We also talk about the problem with third party payers and how along with burdensome regulations are causing doctors to burn out, quit their practices or even commit suicide. Dr. Houston also relates why their is a doctor shortage and what can be done to fix it. She belives that decentralization is one of the keys to fixing the healthcare sytem and helping to empower the individual to choose for themeslves how they improve their health and wellbeing. You can find out more about her private pracrice and HPEC.io below: http://leahhoustonmd.com https://hpec.io We also discussed the fact that the Practicing Physicians of America are suing over what they say is unfair practicies against the American Board of Internal Medicne which is restricting their right to practice medicine. Consider giving to help doctors fight back against unnecessary and expensive regulations that end up incresing costs and not improving outcomes. Practicing Physicians of America GoFundMe page - https://www.gofundme.com/practicing-physicians-of-america .I'm grateful for Dr. Leah Houston for her time today and her work using blockchain technology to help decentralize healthcare and her work to promote more freedom and less top down regulation from both public and private entites who control many of our healthcare choices. On The Chronically Human Podcast we advocate for Medical Freedom. That is simply your individual inherent right and the inherent responsibilty to choose for yourself how you improve your health and wellbeing. Thanks for listening. Brad Miller The Chronically Human Podcast

Leah Houston, MD had her physician identity used for billing after her employment concluded.  This led to the epiphany that caused her to start HPEC.IO, an organization that is trying to give physician's back control of their identities using blockchain technology.  This could be useful for doctors that want to switch jobs or states without having to have every bit of information independently verified.  We first discuss what blockchain is and then get into how she plans to implement it to not just help us keep our identities under our control, but to create bureaucracy-free virtual physician communities. She is a board-certified Emergency Physician, founded Houston Health in 2013, and has a personalized private practice in Manhattan. While practicing medicine across the US for nearly 10 years she recognized a common problem: uncompensated administrative burdens related to physician employment and credentialing are a leading cause of administrative waste and physician burn out. She began HPEC in 2018 when she realized that Blockchain could solve the obstructive regulatory problems with its distributed ledger technology. HPEC is building a platform that will give every physician a self-sovereign digital identity attached to their credentials in order to create the Decentralized Autonomous Organization of physicians and surgeons.  This will streamline the current antiquated and laborious process of hospital credentialing, save on administrative costs, improve access to care, and give physicians sovereign ownership of their data, professional brand and employment rights. HPEC will also create an opportunity for physicians to communicate more efficiently about policy and practice and in turn improve patient care.  She can be found on her Social Media Handles (linkedin, twitter, Facebook, Instagram) @LeahHoustonMD          @HPECDAO        

In this episode we interview Dr. Leah Houston, a founder of HPEC.  This emergency physician is now using blockchain technology to create independent networks for physicians that are decentralized.  Hear more about Dr. Houston’s career from Emergency Medicine to Direct Primary Care and how her new company is aiming to maximize sovereignty for physicians as a whole. www.hpec.io www.leahhoustonmd.com   www.timewithdoctorjarret.com

  Dr. Leah Houston is an Emergency Medicine Physician practicing precision medicine in New York. Dr. Leah is also the founder of HPEC.IO a blockchain technology that has major implications for physicians and the healthcare system at large.  In this conversation we learn about:  1. Dr. Houston's early interest in medicine 2. A credentialing and identity breach that impacted Dr. Leah's career, but also resulted as the inspiration for HPEC.IO 3. How physician credentialing is an antiquated system 4. A brief discussion about blockchain technology 5. What HPEC.IO is and how it works 6. The implications of this technology 7. A tip for the listeners   A brief explanation of HPEC.IO: Dr. Houston has created Humanitarian Physician Empowerment Community (HPEC), a physician-owned community that utilizes blockchain technology. Block Chain technology allows information to be stored, encrypted, and protected via a network of computers to create a distributed ledger. Instead of third parties requiring physicians to verify credentialing, this new system allows physicians to upload their data and have it protected without third-party interference. Leah hopes to invite physicians to be founding members of HPEC and help create the future of healthcare. www.hpec.io Implications Of The Technology  This technology has the ability to (not an exhaustive list):  1.Give physicians a secure self-sovereign digital identity 2. Allow credentialing process of physicians to be exponentially faster 3.  Remove third-party involvement from physician identity and bring autonomy and control back to physicians 4. Bring physicians onto one platform in order to vote and influence health care policy and practice 5. Listen to the podcast for more implications of this technology Who We Are: The Happy Doc is a  podcast, website, and movement with a mission to create thriving physicians. Our podcast is a space where we learn from happy doctors such as our latest guest. When we learn from inspiration individuals we see that it is possible to make your dream a reality. Our vision is to help physicians live their healthcare dreams. Are you ready to create your healthcare dream? Please connect with us at any of our social media handles and join our e-mail list. We will continue to create content that will inspire you on your journey! If you want to collaborate and aid in our mission, please reach out to our e-mail: thehappydoc1@gmail.com. Please Help The Happy Doc! Please SUBSCRIBE to our podcast on iTunes by searching “The Happy Doc.” Please leave us a review on iTunes. Don't forget to SHARE this with your friends on social media. TAG (@happydocpodcast) and we will give you a shout out! Leave A Review It Helps So Much! Here's an explanation video if you are unsure how to do so. It's really quick and is one of the best ways to support us! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_xz5XbWQTg   We Appreciate you! Thanks for listening and don't forget to smile

  Everyone knows that one of your most important assets is your identity. Without that you will have difficulty getting anything accomplished. Most importantly, whoever holds the key to your identity will wield the ultimate power. Thankfully, today's digitized world and the emergence of block chains for public accounting and private security is bringing us to a place where you can store this information in a decentralized space allowing the individual to have the power. My guest, Dr. Leah Houston, is an emergency physician by training who ran into an unfortunate instance where her professional identity was used without her knowledge that put her at significant legal risk. Through that experience she began to wonder if there was a way for physicians to hold onto their identity. Her concept is HPEC which uses the block chain and provides a platform for physicians to control the validation of their credentials in a decentralized way that they can then monetize. Her plan is for physicians to own, operate, and utilize this credentialing service putting them in charge of their identity and communicating in an open and decentralized forum to disseminate ideas and innovations free from outside corporate interests. It's a bold and ambitious plan and we will discuss it in detail during this show.   In the interest of full disclosure, this is a new venture and investment opportunity for physicians. We will not discuss the financial details of how to become a founding member but all inquiries can be sent through the HPEC website. As of this writing, I am not a founding member and do not mean for the show to be my endorsement or recommendation. I simply hope you find the idea of empowering physicians and block chain technology entering the medical field as interesting as I do. Dr. Leah Houston, ER trained physician and founder of HPEC, a digitized physician credentialing service. show notes HPEC: This is the main landing page for Dr. Houston's venture. HPEC is looking to transform the credentialing world for physicians by allowing them to own and control their personal credentials. Houston Health: Dr. Houston's medical practice landing page. Stop Organ Harvesting: Another organization seeking to expose and tell more people about what is happening in China. Some great links about the Falun Gong who were targeted for persecution. Hey Doc, I'm Over Here. That's Just a Computer Screen: Episode 006 and the problem with electronic health records. Patreon - Become a show supporter today and visit my Patreon page for extra bonuses. Every dollar raised goes towards the production and promotion of the show.

We talk to Dr. Leah Houston MD in this podcast about her passion, which is blockchain technology to help solve the healthcare crisis. This is summarized as a distributed ledger of bundled data to make information and transactions secure.  In this case it is a distributed ledger of your credentials as a doctor, which is a digital identity, that gives us doctors ownership of our right to work.  This will be a PHYSICIAN ONLY community.  It is a form of a healthcare economy OWNED by physicians, giving us a say and right to work.  Therefore, we now own the right of this intellectually property.  It will eventually be a way we can make money off our data.  Basically, it is about giving power back to the doctors through this decentralized technology.  That being said, this needs mass adoption by physicians to be successful.  There are nefarious competitors out there that are NOT doctors. This is coming whether we like it or not.  The question is whether we want to join together and do it ourselves to implement change with a collective physician voice. The goal of Dr. Houston’s company is to first build the credential ledger and then possibly build the cryptocurrency for patients to use with doctors.  It is also give us collective bargaining power using this blockchain technology.  Lastly, the decentralized concept allows physicians to vote on issues how to run the company, on what treatment plans are better, which policies are appropriate for patients, etc. This is a young company and an early investment opportunity.  Full disclosure, I am not an investor at this time and YOU MUST READ EVERYTHING before you decide to join.  They are looking for founding members and then regular members.  There are always risks in any venture.  However, it looks like blockchain companies are coming and so do you want to take that risk and be involved early? Do we want the AMA or Walmart to own this space?  This is a question only you can answer. Here is the website for HPEC and here is Dr. Houston's bio and a brief business planthat she sends to investors. "If you look closely the amount of equity I give to doctors compared to investors is much more.  I am doing to reverse this trend of the money people exploiting us. Its time to use them and put their hard work to our advantage!" Some more information: Businesses of future will not be only about providing value through products or services; they will also be about providing value through the community. Biggest businesses of next decade will also have a powerful tribe behind them enacting change. Products will be sold not only because of the value they offer but because of the tribe they will provide access to once bought. We are doing this by using powerful and secure new technology. This technology is powerful because it first verifies a persons identity and then based on that identity allow them to transact for any goods and services peer to peer and free from third party influence, tax, or broker fee. What you transact depends on what is within your rights based on your identity. For physicians and surgeons, in the example of healthcare, your identity will be attached to the fact that you are a physician or surgeon (MD or a DO) and it will be attached to your residency training and credentials number of years in practice, potentially licenses, whether you have other advanced degrees such as an MBA or MPH etc. A patients identity can also be attached to their unique data, and their medical records that they own.  They like physicians will also have their jobs careers attached to their ID.  Everyone will also have their means of transacting, crypto currency dollars and other assets, like your home and car, all attached to this secure verifiable and un-hackable digital identity. Please see all the attached information here and listen to the podcast.  Also, here is an articlethat outlines the importance of a digital identity, how it can empower people, and keep your data secure. Ask Dr. Houston questions about this in the comment section on www.authenticmedicine.com.