Development and Evaluation of a Smart Contract–Enabled Blockchain System for Home Care Service Innovation: Mixed Methods Study

Chang, Shuchih Ernest; Chen, YiChian; Lu, Ming-Fang; Luo, Hueimin Louis

doi:10.2196/15472

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“…Data privacy [16], [17],[18], [19], [20], [21], [22], [23] Data integrity [24], [25],[26], [27], [28], [29], [30], [31], [32], [33], [34], [35], [36], [37], [38], [39], [40], [41], [42], [43], [44], [45],…”

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Blockchain Technology in Healthcare, Current and Future Trends – A Systematic Review

Louis

Maheshwari

2023

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Background: Blockchain, since its advent in 2009, found purpose in various fields like supply chain, e-governance, healthcare, and dispute settlements. This study brings into perspective the current security status of data in the healthcare domain and identifies blockchain use cases in the same. The aim is to circle down on the reasons for adoption of the blockchain technology and the challenges faced by these implementations. Methods: An automated literature search was conducted on selected databases which specifically focused on healthcare implementations between the years 2016 and 2021 using “blockchain” as the primary keyword. This article considers implementations and proposals of blockchains within the healthcare domain and focuses on identifying why a particular blockchain has been selected over the pool available. Results: The search convened with 92 identified blockchain healthcare systems. The study identified that the most popular blockchains in the healthcare domain is Ethereum (33.6%) and Hyperledger (17.3%). Data sharing (44.5%) and data integrity (41.3%) are identified as the major challenges that have been addressed by the identified literature. This study concludes by bringing the future of blockchains into perspective, which helps identify the necessity of continued research work. Conclusions: Building on current healthcare security status, the most popular blockchains in the healthcare domains were identified and the reasons for the adoption of specific blockchain over the various available today were discussed in detail. The stakeholders of such blockchain implementations were also identified along with the challenges that have been successfully addressed including data sharing, integrity, verification, and traceability.

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“…[39], [40], [75], [41] Data security [24], [27],[66], [29], [73], [74], [57] Patient [39], [40], [45], [47], [49], [50], [51], [53],…”

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Blockchain Technology in Healthcare, Current and Future Trends – A Systematic Review

Louis

Maheshwari

2023

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“…Although our literature review excluded most articles that addressed technical aspects or blockchain architectures, some were considered since they contributed to service research. The selected articles proposed BC architectures and frameworks in various service domains, for instance home care services (Chang et al 2020), cross-border e-government services (Geneiatakis et al 2020), background technology for robotic services (Fukuwa 2020), knowledge and service sharing in manufacturing ecosystems (Li et al 2018), and for individualized pricing in on-demand service platform operations (Choi et al 2020).…”

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“…After developing the architectures, a few were tested under realistic conditions (e.g., Chang et al 2020;Geneiatakis et al 2020;Li et al 2018), showing that blockchain-supported architectures are more traceable (Chang et al 2020), efficient (Chang et al 2020;Li et al 2018), effective, less expensive, more flexible, and of generally better quality than traditional systems and approaches (Li et al 2018). Further, Chang et al (2020) conducted a quantitative study with home care service users which indicated that participants benefit from increased efficiency, better transparency, and a higher level of process automation (Chang et al 2020).…”

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Blockchain in Service Management and Service Research - Developing a Research Agenda and Managerial Implications

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Janssen²,

Kwee³

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As blockchain technology is maturing to be confidently used in practice, its applications are becoming evident and, correspondingly, more blockchain research is being published, also extending to more domains than before. To date, scientific research in the field has predominantly focused on subject areas such as finance, computer science, and engineering, while the area of service management has largely neglected this topic. Therefore, we invited a group of renowned scholars from different academic fields to share their views on emerging topics regarding blockchain in service management and service research. Their individual commentaries and conceptual contributions refer to different theoretical and domain perspectives, including managerial implications for service companies as well as forward-looking suggestions for further research.

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“…The paper seeks to initiate a discussion by educating policymakers and practitioners on the potential benefits of the technology. This discussion is important for opening up this field of research to keep up with state-of-the-art research in other disciplines, such as healthcare [39,40] or supply chain [38,41]. For this discussion, the paper provides the following contributions: It uses a decision framework to qualitatively evaluate whether a blockchain application is technologically feasible for each case.…”

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How Can Blockchain Technology Accelerate Energy Efficiency Interventions? A Use Case Comparison

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This paper qualitatively evaluates the application of blockchain technology for three energy efficiency use cases. To achieve the Sustainable Development Agenda, energy efficiency improvements have to double by 2030. However, the adoption of energy efficiency interventions is slow due to several market barriers. Blockchain technology is a nascent technology with the potential to address these barriers or even fundamentally change energy system designs, by enabling transparent, decentralised, and tamper-resilient systems. Nevertheless, a blockchain application comes with trade-offs and needs to be considered on a case by case basis. In this paper, we examine the benefits and constraints of a blockchain application for three different approaches to achieving energy efficiency: (i) peer-to-peer (P2P) energy trading; (ii) White Certificate Scheme (WCS); and (iii) Energy Service Companies (ESCOs). For each of these cases, we apply a decision framework to assess blockchain feasibility and outline a potential blockchain-based design. The analysis shows that blockchain functions are case dependent and that an application creates different governance and system designs due to varying case characteristics. We discuss how the identified blockchain adoption barriers can be overcome and stress the need for policy action to advance the development of pilot studies. By decentralising system governance, blockchain enables innovative designs that can accelerate the implementation of energy efficiency interventions.

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Development and Evaluation of a Smart Contract–Enabled Blockchain System for Home Care Service Innovation: Mixed Methods Study

Cited by 13 publications

References 16 publications

Blockchain Technology in Healthcare, Current and Future Trends – A Systematic Review

Blockchain Technology in Healthcare, Current and Future Trends – A Systematic Review

Blockchain in Service Management and Service Research - Developing a Research Agenda and Managerial Implications

How Can Blockchain Technology Accelerate Energy Efficiency Interventions? A Use Case Comparison

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