BMC medicine, 2019-03, Vol.17 (1), p.68-68, Article 68
2019
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- Autor(en) / Beteiligte
- Titel
- 'Fit-for-purpose?' - challenges and opportunities for applications of blockchain technology in the future of healthcare
- Ist Teil von
- BMC medicine, 2019-03, Vol.17 (1), p.68-68, Article 68
- Ort / Verlag
- England: BioMed Central Ltd
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 2019
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- Quelle
- EZB-FREE-00999 freely available EZB journals
- Beschreibungen/Notizen
- Blockchain is a shared distributed digital ledger technology that can better facilitate data management, provenance and security, and has the potential to transform healthcare. Importantly, blockchain represents a data architecture, whose application goes far beyond Bitcoin - the cryptocurrency that relies on blockchain and has popularized the technology. In the health sector, blockchain is being aggressively explored by various stakeholders to optimize business processes, lower costs, improve patient outcomes, enhance compliance, and enable better use of healthcare-related data. However, critical in assessing whether blockchain can fulfill the hype of a technology characterized as 'revolutionary' and 'disruptive', is the need to ensure that blockchain design elements consider actual healthcare needs from the diverse perspectives of consumers, patients, providers, and regulators. In addition, answering the real needs of healthcare stakeholders, blockchain approaches must also be responsive to the unique challenges faced in healthcare compared to other sectors of the economy. In this sense, ensuring that a health blockchain is 'fit-for-purpose' is pivotal. This concept forms the basis for this article, where we share views from a multidisciplinary group of practitioners at the forefront of blockchain conceptualization, development, and deployment.
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Identifikatoren
- ISSN: 1741-7015eISSN: 1741-7015DOI: 10.1186/s12916-019-1296-7Titel-ID: cdi_doaj_primary_oai_doaj_org_article_511c3b063cba4ddf8a415f234b03018a
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- Schlagworte
- Biomedical Technology - methods, Biomedical Technology - organization & administration, Biomedical Technology - trends, Blockchain, Blockchains (Databases), Business logistics, Business process management, Clinical trials, Computer Communication Networks - organization & administration, Computer Communication Networks - standards, Computer Communication Networks - supply & distribution, Computer Communication Networks - trends, Computer security, Cryptocurrencies, Cryptography, Data management, Data processing, Data Warehousing - methods, Data Warehousing - trends, Delivery of Health Care - methods, Delivery of Health Care - organization & administration, Delivery of Health Care - trends, Digital currencies, Digital signatures, Distributed ledger technology, Electronic Data Processing - methods, Electronic Data Processing - organization & administration, Electronic Data Processing - trends, Electronic records, Equipment and Supplies Utilization - organization & administration, Equipment and Supplies Utilization - trends, Forum, Genomes, Genomics, Health care, Health care industry, Health care reform, Health informatics, Healthcare technology, High-Throughput Screening Assays - standards, Humans, Life sciences, Management Information Systems - standards, Management Information Systems - trends, Medical informatics, Medical Informatics - methods, Medical Informatics - organization & administration, Medical Informatics - trends, Medical records, Medical Records - standards, Open standards, Pharmaceuticals, Security, Supply chain, Supply chains, Technology, Technology application