Journal
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL INFORMATICS ASSOCIATION
Volume 24, Issue 6, Pages 1211-1220Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/jamia/ocx068
Keywords
blockchain; distributed ledger technology; health information exchange; security; interoperability
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- National Institutes of Health [U24AI117966, U54HL108460]
- Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute [CDRN-1306-04819]
- VA [IIR12-068]
- National Human Genome Research Institute of the National Institutes of Health [K99HG009680]
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To introduce blockchain technologies, including their benefits, pitfalls, and the latest applications, to the biomedical and health care domains. Biomedical and health care informatics researchers who would like to learn about blockchain technologies and their applications in the biomedical/health care domains. 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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