About this episode

This episode explores how blockchain technology can address the interoperability issues in healthcare data through a conversation with Archita Samant from Merck.

What happens when you put blockchain underneath AI in healthcare? According to Archita Samant, Head of Data Strategy & Analytics for Global Vaccines at Merck — you finally solve the interoperability problem that's been holding the industry back for decades. In this episode, Jonathan sits down with Archita to unpack the real-world challenges of fragmented health data, why agentic AI demands a better data foundation than we currently have, and how blockchain could be the base layer that mak...

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Host: Jonathan Kaskey

Guest: Archita Samant

Topics covered

• blockchain
• AI
• healthcare data
• interoperability
• data strategy
• vaccines

Keywords

• blockchain
• AI
• healthcare
• data interoperability
• health data
• Merck
• data strategy

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Organizations: Merck

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