‘Fit-for-purpose?’ – challenges and opportunities for applications of blockchain technology in the future of healthcare

‘Fit-for-purpose?’ – challenges and opportunities for applications of blockchain technology in the future of healthcare

Abstract 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 cryptocurr...

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Main Authors: Tim K. Mackey, Tsung-Ting Kuo, Basker Gummadi, Kevin A. Clauson, George Church, Dennis Grishin, Kamal Obbad, Robert Barkovich, Maria Palombini
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-03-01
Series:BMC Medicine
Subjects:
Blockchain
Distributed ledger technology
Healthcare technology
Health informatics
Supply chain
Clinical trials
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12916-019-1296-7

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