ArticleJournal of medical Internet research2020
Blockchain in Health Care: Hope or Hype?
Article in Journal of medical Internet research, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Who cites it
20 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 79 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Applications of Blockchain in the Medical Field: Narrative Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2021Pooled it
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- Clinical Impact of "Real World Data" and Blockchain on Public Health: A Scoping Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Article
- Fortifying Health Care Intellectual Property Transactions With Blockchain.Journal of medical Internet research · 2023Review
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Authors and funding
2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
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No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
There has been an increasing interest in blockchain technology from the health care sector in the last couple of years. The value proposition for using blockchain technology in the health care sector is to share sensitive patient data among health care entities securely and to empower patients. Blockchain technology allows patients to have an active role in developing and updating their own patient data. However, is blockchain technology really the silver bullet it seems to be? With this paper, we aim to understand the benefits and challenges of blockchain technology in the health care sector. We discuss innovation and security implications concerning blockchain technology in health care. Furthermore, we show that there is a need for more use cases to ensure the secure sharing of data within the health care sector. In our opinion, blockchain technology will not solve the issues encountered by the health care sector; in fact, it may raise more issues than it will solve.
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