Health IT Analytics February 14, 2018
Blockchain is generating a great deal of excitement among healthcare organizations, but how and when will it bring value to stakeholders?
Blockchain has quickly risen to become one of the most talked-about technologies in the healthcare sector and elsewhere, dangling a tantalizing “chain of trust” in front of an industry yearning for easier, more secure, and more interoperable methods of data exchange.
The distributed ledger methodology, most famous for supporting cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Etherium, offers a unique way to manage the transactions that are so critical to administrative and clinical processes.
By linking together communities of participants, all with shared power and responsibility to track changes through timestamps and confirm that transactions or data exchanges are valid and...