Blockchain Applications and Use Cases in Health Information Technology
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Blockchain Applications and Use Cases in Health Information Technology
Blockchain technology applications have the potential to transform our current use of health information technology and the associated hardware and software infrastructure. The underlying technology and associated crypto currency with its decentralized architecture suggests a range of applications that can, we argue, bring cost savings and efficiencies versus traditional legacy systems currentl...
متن کاملThe Use of Health Information Technology by Nurses in Healthcare
Background: Health Information Technology (HIT) has the potential for improving the quality, safety, and efficiency of healthcare and nurses are the largest group of HIT users. Objectives: Therefore, the present study mainly aimed to investigate the use of HIT by nurses in healthcare. Methods: This cross-sectional and descriptive-analytical study was conducted in four educational and treatmen...
متن کاملProposal for Chapter 3 Blockchain Technology Use Cases in Healthcare
Blockchain technology alleviates the reliance on a centralized authority to certify information integrity and ownership, as well as mediate transactions and exchange of digital assets, while enabling secure and pseudo-anonymous transactions along with agreements directly between interacting parties. It possesses key properties, such as immutability, decentralization, and transparency, that pote...
متن کاملThe Blockchain Technology: Some Theory and Applications
Since its 2008 appearance as a cornerstone of the cryptocurrency bitcoin, the blockchain technology gained widespread attention as a modality to securily validate and store information without a trusted third party. Indeed trust is replaced by cryptographic security, epitomised by hash functions, a unique fingerprint of any information file. The paper is a quick overview of the main concepts an...
متن کاملApplications of Blockchain Technology beyond Cryptocurrency
The goal of this research paper is to summarise the literature on implementation of the Blockchain and similar digital ledger techniques in various other domains beyond its application to crypto-currency and to draw appropriate conclusions. Blockchain being relatively a new technology, a representative sample of research is presented, spanning over the last ten years, starting from the early wo...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Health & Medical Informatics
سال: 2017
ISSN: 2157-7420
DOI: 10.4172/2157-7420.1000276