Pragmatic, Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology: Paving the Future for Healthcare

Ribitzky, Ron; Clair, James St.; Houlding, David; McFarlane, Chrissa; Ahier, Brian; Gould, Michael K.; Flannery, Heather Leigh; Pupo, Erik; Clauson, Kevin A.

doi:10.30953/bhty.v1.24

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“…In such a case, health data can be stored off-chain, and if a patient exercises his or her right to be forgotten, the personal information that is stored off-chain could be deleted. 26 A01, A02, A04, A05, A06, A07, A09, A10, A11, A14, A16, A17, A19, A20, A21, A22, A23, A24, A25, A27, A28, A29, A33, A35, A36, A37, A38 Scalability: limit on the "block size" and storage capacity.…”

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“…2 Countries or regions that differ in terms of regulations have their own healthcare protocols and standards due to national medical regulations. 26 The standards are intended to systematize the patients' clinical datasets and define protocols for ensuring the uniformity of health information. These are usually dedicated to standardizing the storage of and regulating clinical and demographic data about patients.…”

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“…7 Blockchains are currently the most popular form of DLT. 26 Blockchain technologies can be divided into three types: 13 sensors, and should follow the user throughout his life. Additional advantages of Blockchain's distributed architecture are built-in fault tolerance and disaster recovery.…”

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Electronic health records in a Blockchain: A systematic review

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Blockchain could reinvent the way patient’s electronic health records are shared and stored by providing safer mechanisms for health information exchange of medical data in the healthcare industry, by securing it over a decentralized peer-to-peer network. Intending to support and ease the understanding of this distributed ledger technology, a solid Systematic Literature Review was conducted, aiming to explore the recent literature on Blockchain and healthcare domain and identify existing challenges and open questions, guided by the raise of research questions regarding EHR in a Blockchain. More than 300 scientific studies published in the last ten years were surveyed, resulting in an up-to-date taxonomy creation, challenges and open questions identified, and the most significant approaches, data types, standards and architectures regarding the use of Blockchain for EHR were assessed and discussed.

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Electronic health records in a Blockchain: A systematic review

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“…Because of the member's dynamic computing mechanism, all member nodes have synchronized in real time, and local control cannot be achieved. The global nodes are randomly distributed and correspondingly controlled under the control of the operation clock and dynamic time stamp and never shutdown, and the credit is continuous [11]. The technical characteristics of strong blockchain trust have derived from the lack of central security responsibilities of its node members.…”

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Research on trust mechanism of cooperation innovation with big data processing based on blockchain

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2019

J Wireless Com Network

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In recent years, the status of cooperation and innovation has become increasingly important. Research on the behavior of production, education, and research organizations has attracted widespread attention. Blockchain technology is considered as another subversive technology following cloud computing, wireless sensor networks, and big data. It is highly concerned by governments, financial institutions, and technology companies. Blockchain technology is essentially a technical solution that collectively maintains a reliable database through a decentralized, high-trust way. Blockchain WEB technology has not only used in financial and other fields, but also has a great potential for application in the fields of production, education, and research. It has expected to play an important role in the establishment of a trust mechanism in the "Internet +" production, research, and innovation and promote education. Drawing on the experience in blockchain applications in the financial sector, the blockchain in the education sector mainly embodies six application modes: building individual science credit data, creating an intelligent education Taobao platform, developing a degree certificate system, and building a new ecology of open educational resources. Of course, due to the uniqueness and complexity of the trust field in the cooperation innovation of industry, universities, and research institutes, the application of blockchain technology is also faced with difficulties in the application, promotion, and operation of production and research, fuzzy ownership of educational big data, limited data storage space, and potential safety problems of blockchain technology. There are many challenges such as the privacy protection risks of teachers and students.

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“…Since each block is linked to the next based on its hash, we know that any change that occurs in the data will drastically change the hash value [6]. Every block in the chain that comes after the adulterated block will be invalid (Fig.…”

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Geospatial blockchain: promises, challenges, and scenarios in health and healthcare

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A PubMed query run in June 2018 using the keyword ‘blockchain’ retrieved 40 indexed papers, a reflection of the growing interest in blockchain among the medical and healthcare research and practice communities. Blockchain’s foundations of decentralisation, cryptographic security and immutability make it a strong contender in reshaping the healthcare landscape worldwide. Blockchain solutions are currently being explored for: (1) securing patient and provider identities; (2) managing pharmaceutical and medical device supply chains; (3) clinical research and data monetisation; (4) medical fraud detection; (5) public health surveillance; (6) enabling truly public and open geo-tagged data; (7) powering many Internet of Things-connected autonomous devices, wearables, drones and vehicles, via the distributed peer-to-peer apps they run, to deliver the full vision of smart healthy cities and regions; and (8) blockchain-enabled augmented reality in crisis mapping and recovery scenarios, including mechanisms for validating, crediting and rewarding crowdsourced geo-tagged data, among other emerging use cases. Geospatially-enabled blockchain solutions exist today that use a crypto-spatial coordinate system to add an immutable spatial context that regular blockchains lack. These geospatial blockchains do not just record an entry’s specific time, but also require and validate its associated proof of location, allowing accurate spatiotemporal mapping of physical world events. Blockchain and distributed ledger technology face similar challenges as any other technology threatening to disintermediate legacy processes and commercial interests, namely the challenges of blockchain interoperability, security and privacy, as well as the need to find suitable and sustainable business models of implementation. Nevertheless, we expect blockchain technologies to get increasingly powerful and robust, as they become coupled with artificial intelligence (AI) in various real-word healthcare solutions involving AI-mediated data exchange on blockchains.

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Pragmatic, Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology: Paving the Future for Healthcare

Cited by 46 publications

References 7 publications

Electronic health records in a Blockchain: A systematic review

Electronic health records in a Blockchain: A systematic review

Research on trust mechanism of cooperation innovation with big data processing based on blockchain

Geospatial blockchain: promises, challenges, and scenarios in health and healthcare

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