Blockchain technology in healthcare: The revolution starts here

By Matthias Mettler. International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services, 2016

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A review of existing and emerging digital technologies to combat the global trade in fake medicines (2017, methodology): “…to better establish drug supply chain provenance, we were only able to extract a single 2016 IEEE non-research article that summarized a few blockchain projects initiated by different organizations and explored it as a potential solution for fake medicines among other healthcare problems [125].”
Security for 5G and Beyond (2019, background): “For example, secure sharing of health-care information is one of the crucial requirements in order to provide intelligent and better quality of health-care services [371], [372].”
Blockchain distributed ledger technologies for biomedical and health care applications (2017, background): “Several researchers also propose accelerating secondary use of clinical data (ie, clinical and biomedical studies and research) using blockchain technology, including MedRec, 96,97 Data Lake, 86 Healthbank, 76,102 and blockchain-based data sharing networks.”
Applications of Blockchain Technology in Medicine and Healthcare: Challenges and Future Perspectives (2019, background): “The utilization of blockchain innovation will accordingly encourage improved access to care, medical record management [28], prompt clinical information confirmation, expanded security, and more effective arrangement of care.”
A Survey of Blockchain Technology Applied to Smart Cities: Research Issues and Challenges (2019, background): “Applying blockchain in smart healthcare has several advantages [117], [118].”
EduCTX: A Blockchain-Based Higher Education Credit Platform (2017, background): “Some authors even claim that it could revolutionize healthcare [9].”
FHIRChain: Applying Blockchain to Securely and Scalably Share Clinical Data (2018, background): “In recent years, blockchain technologies have been increasingly touted [22, 23, 24] as a technical infrastructure to support clinical data sharing that promotes care coordination.”
Applications of blockchain in ensuring the security and privacy of electronic health record systems: A survey (2020, positive): “There are a (small) number of real-world blockchain-based healthcare systems, such as Gem, Guardtime and healthbank ( Mettler, 2016 ).”
Blockchain in healthcare and health sciences - A scoping review (2019, background): “Although blockchain technology is considered to have potential for real improvement of health information systems [3], the recent hype surrounding this technology similarly entails unrealistic proposals and ideas and current literature provides little overview of applications that have been…”
A Blockchain Research Framework (2017, background): “…public database, time-stamping service, veriﬁ-able audit trails, decentralized infrastructure) for different sectors like digital assets, marketplaces, and notary services (Korpela et al. 2017; Wo¨rner et al. 2016), the energy (Aitzhan and Svetinovic 2016) or healthcare sectors (Mettler 2016).”
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