Blockchain shows promise in improving interoperability, IDC report says

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• By 2020, one in five healthcare organizations will have progressed beyond the pilot stage to use blockchain technology for operations management and patient identify, a new IDC report predicts.
• Other potential use cases are more conceptual at this stage but could include incentivizing patients to exchange data and facilitating administrative data quality and management, according to Mutaz Shegewi, IDC analyst and the report’s author.
• The rise of fast healthcare interoperability resources (FHIR) and open APIs also creates opportunities for blockchain to serve as a grid for distributing and sharing clinical data, the report says.

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