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ReviewHealthcare (Basel, Switzerland)2019

Blockchain Technology in Healthcare: A Systematic Review.

Cornelius C Agbo, Qusay H Mahmoud, J Mikael Eklund

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Review in Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland), 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 125 papers, 8 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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125citing papers in PubMed, 8 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

125 citing papers in PubMed, 8 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  2. Blockchain in Health Information Systems: A Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024
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  3. Biomedical blockchain with practical implementations and quantitative evaluations: a systematic review.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2024
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  7. Blockchain Personal Health Records: Systematic Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Cornelius C AgboDepartment of Electrical, Computer and Software Engineering, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Oshawa, ON L1G 0C5, Canada. cornelius.agbo@uoit.ca.
Qusay H MahmoudDepartment of Electrical, Computer and Software Engineering, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Oshawa, ON L1G 0C5, Canada. qusay.mahmoud@uoit.ca.ORCID 0000-0003-0472-5757
J Mikael EklundDepartment of Electrical, Computer and Software Engineering, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Oshawa, ON L1G 0C5, Canada. mikael.eklund@uoit.ca.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Since blockchain was introduced through Bitcoin, research has been ongoing to extend its applications to non-financial use cases. Healthcare is one industry in which blockchain is expected to have significant impacts. Research in this area is relatively new but growing rapidly; so, health informatics researchers and practitioners are always struggling to keep pace with research progress in this area. This paper reports on a systematic review of the ongoing research in the application of blockchain technology in healthcare. The research methodology is based on the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis (PRISMA) guidelines and a systematic mapping study process, in which a well-designed search protocol is used to search four scientific databases, to identify, extract and analyze all relevant publications. The review shows that a number of studies have proposed different use cases for the application of blockchain in healthcare; however, there is a lack of adequate prototype implementations and studies to characterize the effectiveness of these proposed use cases. The review further highlights the state-of-the-art in the development of blockchain applications for healthcare, their limitations and the areas for future research. To this end, therefore, there is still the need for more research to better understand, characterize and evaluate the utility of blockchain in healthcare.

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blockchainhealthcaresystematic review

Identifiers

PMID30987333
PMCPMC6627742

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