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...
| Published in: | Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association Vol. 24; no. 6; pp. 1211 - 1221 |
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| Main Authors: | , , , , |
| Format: | review Journal Article |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Nov2017
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| Online Access: | View this record in EBSCOhost |
| Summary: | 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. |
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