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Indegene CTO On Pharma And Blockchain’s Promise Of Better Accountability, Trust

 
• By Anju Ghangurde

Indegene’s chief technology officer, Tarun Mathur, talks to Scrip about blockchain’s potential in a number of areas across pharma’s operations including the clinical supply chain and trials as well as its role in enabling improved trust in the healthcare data ecosystem.

Blockchains Provide Opportunities To Enhance Data Protection • Source: Shutterstock

The potential and opportunities of blockchain for healthcare are immense and pharma is working towards using this type of distributed ledger technology in areas such as supply chain, safe storing of health data, clinical trials and R&D.

In an interview with Scrip, Tarun Mathur, chief technology officer, Indegene, touched upon certain early and ongoing industry efforts around...

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