Platform Aiming to Identify Health Problems Using AI Launching Alpha Version Within Weeks

A blockchain-based platform which bills itself as the "future of artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare" is preparing to launch an alpha version of its infrastructure within weeks. Skychain believes its diagnostics system – a "distributed open network" of artificial neural networks (or ANNs for short) – can identify conditions in patients and prescribe appropriate treatments in milliseconds, substantially reducing the risk of human error during the crucial diagnosis stage. By June, the company says early participants including hospitals, medical AI developers and healthcare data providers will have access to a "fully built" ecosystem. It hopes to welcome dozens more participants in the second half of this year – and by the time a beta version is released in December, Skychain believes "more and more neural networks and ready-made datasets" will become available. Skychain wants all of its plans to be "completely realized" by next summer, when it plans to officially launch – paving the way for it to become "a leader in the medical AI market."