AI in Healthcare February 7, 2020
Michael Walter

Healthcare researchers are focusing more and more on the potential benefits of blockchain technology, a trend explored by the authors of a new analysis in the International Journal of Medical Informatics.

“The technology of blockchain, with inherited characteristics such as decentralization, transparency and anonymization, was introduced in the cryptocurrency Bitcoin in 2008,” wrote lead author Anton Hasselgren, Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Norway, and colleagues. “Bitcoin, with close to 400 million completed transactions, represents a solid use-case that blockchain technology works. This has led to discussions and proposals that blockchain technology could be useful in a range of other data-driven domains, including healthcare.”

Hasselgren et al. conducted a thorough search of the available literature on blockchain in healthcare....

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