This was one of those periods when every healthcare conference had at least one blockchain slide deck, usually with more conviction than implementation detail. My interest was narrower: where does a tamper-evident shared ledger actually help with data exchange, trust, and coordination, and where is it just decorative architecture?

The interview focused on that practical boundary. The technology was interesting. The harder question was where incentives, governance, and data-sharing models made it worth the operational cost.

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