Word on the Block: Jim Nasr

Word on the Block: Jim Nasr

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Jim Nasr is the founder and CEO of Acoer, an Atlanta-based blockchain-enabled applications developer with a focus on healthcare.

Last year, Acoer employed Hedera Hashgraph‘s distributed ledger technology (DLT) to create a coronavirus-tracking application. 

“If you are using blockchain and using it correctly as we are, you can show that [healthcare] data provenance, and it can be interrogated by anybody on demand. What it doesn’t guarantee and really nobody can guarantee this is that the point of origin data collection is accurate,” Nasr told Forkast.News in a previous interview.

Hedera Hashgraph has recently been adopted for the cold chain monitoring of Covid-19 vaccines for the U.K.’s National Health Service hospitals, according to a statement from Hedera Hashgraph.