Innovation intelligence brief
Innovation intelligence brief
Cloud-based API platform designed to make healthcare transactions more efficient and streamline the business of health. DokChain Health Alliance Blockchain project.
What became of it
Completed · High confidence · Last verified 2026-10-17
As catalogued
Cloud API platform for healthcare transactions (eligibility, claims, payments) plus DokChain, a blockchain consortium for health-data and transaction integrity.
2026 reality
PokitDok no longer operates as a company or brand; pokitdok.com redirects to an unrelated website. Its IP, software, DokChain technology and team were acquired by Change Healthcare.
Change Healthcare bought PokitDok's IP and key assets (not the company as a whole) in December 2018 to integrate PokitDok APIs and blockchain capabilities into its Intelligent Healthcare Network.
a standalone health-transaction API and blockchain play struggled to scale against incumbent clearinghouses; the asset sale handed the technology to the largest clearinghouse.
of historical relevance as one of the most visible healthcare blockchain experiments of 2016-2018.
Third taxonomy
REVIEW · Verified the December 2018 asset acquisition via Coverager (press release text) and MedCity News coverage; refined milestone date to 2018-12-18 (press release dateline). No classification changes.
Documented evidence
Services
APIs
Platform as a service
Platform as a service
DokChain
DokChain
DokChain
Research interpretation
Classification paths, as catalogued, connect this example to the original insurance digitalization research models.