ArticleJMIR research protocols2019
Blockchain Implementation in Health Care: Protocol for a Systematic Review.
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13 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Blockchain in Health Information Systems: A Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Pooled it
- Blockchain technology in healthcare: A systematic review.PloS one · 2022Pooled it
- Design Choices and Trade-Offs in Health Care Blockchain Implementations: Systematic Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2019Pooled it
- Implementing Blockchains for Efficient Health Care: Systematic Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2019Pooled it
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- Moving Beyond Proof of Concept and Pilots to Mainstream: Discovery and Lessons from a Reference Framework and Implementation.Blockchain in healthcare today · 2023Review
- Mapping the scientific research on integrated care: a bibliometric and social network analysis.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Review
- Development of China's health care system in the time of COVID-19: Challenges, opportunities, and call for actions.Health care science · 2022Article
- Mobile time banking on blockchain system development for community elderly care.Journal of ambient intelligence and humanized computing · 2022Article
- A CoviReader Architecture Based on IOTA Tangle for Outbreak Control in Smart Cities during COVID-19 Pandemic.Medical journal of the Islamic Republic of Iran · 2022Article
- Using Blockchain Technology to Mitigate Challenges in Service Access for the Homeless and Data Exchange Between Providers: Qualitative Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2020Article
- Blockchains for Secure Digitized Medicine.Journal of personalized medicine · 2019Review
- Strengthening public health surveillance through blockchain technology.AIMS public health · 2019Review
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Abstract
backgroundA blockchain is a digitized, decentralized, distributed public ledger that acts as a shared and synchronized database that records cryptocurrency transactions. Despite the shift toward digital platforms enabled by electronic medical records, demonstrating a will to reform the health care sector, health systems face issues including security, interoperability, data fragmentation, timely access to patient data, and silos. The application of health care blockchains could enable data interoperability, enhancement of precision medicine, and reduction in prescription frauds through implementing novel methods in access and patient consent.
objectiveTo summarize the evidence on the strategies and frameworks utilized to implement blockchains for patient data in health care to ensure privacy and improve interoperability and scalability. It is anticipated this review will assist in the development of recommendations that will assist key stakeholders in health care blockchain implementation, and we predict that the evidence generated will challenge the health care status quo, moving away from more traditional approaches and facilitating decision making of patients, health care providers, and researchers.
methodsA systematic search of MEDLINE/PubMed, Embase, Scopus, ProQuest Technology Collection and Engineering Index will be conducted. Two experienced independent reviewers will conduct titles and abstract screening followed by full-text reading to determine study eligibility. Data will then be extracted onto data extraction forms before using the Cochrane Collaboration Risk of Bias Tool to appraise the quality of included randomized studies and the Risk of Bias in nonrandomized studies of Interventions to assess the quality of nonrandomized studies. Data will then be analyzed and synthesized.
resultsDatabase searches will be initiated in September 2018. We expect to complete the review in January 2019.
conclusionsThis review will summarize the strategies and frameworks used to implement blockchains in health care to increase data privacy, interoperability, and scalability. This review will also help clarify if the strategies and frameworks required for the operationalization of blockchains in health care ensure the privacy of patient data while enabling efficiency, interoperability, and scalability. INTERNATIONAL REGISTERED REPORT IDENTIFIER (IRRID): PRR1-10.2196/10994.
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