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In the Chinese city of Chongqing, two major hospitals are piloting a blockchain-powered digital billing platform, reported East Money. The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University and the Chongqing People’s Hospital have issued a combined total of 15,000 blockchain-powered bills to patients under the project thus far, per the platform’s operators. The city’s Chongqing Municipal Finance Bureau said that the platform allows patients to settle their bills in real-time using a widget for the e-pay platform WePay . The Seoul Metropolitan Government has pledged to invest USD 4.8m in a “post- coronavirus pandemic †R&D fund for small- and...
