Blockchain distributed ledger technologies for biomedical and health care applications.

Objectives: To introduce blockchain technologies, including their benefits, pitfalls, and the latest applications, to the biomedical and health care domains.Target Audience: Biomedical and health care informatics researchers who would like to learn about blockchain technologies and their application...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Publicado en:Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association Vol. 24; no. 6; pp. 1211 - 1221
Autores principales: Tsung-Ting Kuo, Hyeon-Eui Kim, Ohno-Machado, Lucila, Kuo, Tsung-Ting, Kim, Hyeon-Eui
Formato: review Journal Article
Publicado: Oxford University Press / USA Nov2017
Acceso en línea:Ver este registro en EBSCOhost
fields @attributes:
  recordID: 1
pdfLink:
plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=125673406&site=ehost-live
header:
  @attributes:
    shortDbName: ccm
    uiTerm: 125673406
    longDbName: CINAHL Complete
    uiTag: AN
  controlInfo:
    bkinfo:
    dissinfo:
    jinfo:
      jid:
        10675027
        FZ9
      jtl: Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
      issn: 10675027
      maglogo: N
    pubinfo:
      dt: Nov2017
      vid: 24
      iid: 6
      pid: 622
      pub: Oxford University Press / USA
    artinfo:
      ui:
        125673406
        125673406
        NLM29016974
        125673406
        10.1093/jamia/ocx068
        NLM29016974
        125673406
      ppf: 1211
      ppct: 10
      formats:
      tig:
        atl: Blockchain distributed ledger technologies for biomedical and health care applications.
      aug:
        au:
          Tsung-Ting Kuo
          Hyeon-Eui Kim
          Ohno-Machado, Lucila
          Kuo, Tsung-Ting
          Kim, Hyeon-Eui
        affil: UCSD Health Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
      sug:
        subj:
          Medical Informatics
          Data Mining Economics
          Data Security
          Privacy and Confidentiality
          Business
          Algorithms
      ab: Objectives: To introduce blockchain technologies, including their benefits, pitfalls, and the latest applications, to the biomedical and health care domains.Target Audience: Biomedical and health care informatics researchers who would like to learn about blockchain technologies and their applications in the biomedical/health care domains.Scope: The covered topics include: (1) introduction to the famous Bitcoin crypto-currency and the underlying blockchain technology; (2) features of blockchain; (3) review of alternative blockchain technologies; (4) emerging nonfinancial distributed ledger technologies and applications; (5) benefits of blockchain for biomedical/health care applications when compared to traditional distributed databases; (6) overview of the latest biomedical/health care applications of blockchain technologies; and (7) discussion of the potential challenges and proposed solutions of adopting blockchain technologies in biomedical/health care domains.
      pubtype: Academic Journal
      doctype:
        review
        Journal Article
      ougenre: Article
    language: English
    refInfo:
    holdings:
      @attributes:
        islocal: N