Becker's Healthcare December 4, 2018
Healthcare players are beginning to investigate industry uses for blockchain, but most of this interest is coming from outside the provider space, according to a market research report.
HIMSS Analytics, a market research adviser and subsidiary of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society trade group, polled 160 technology decision-makers in the healthcare industry for its report on use cases for blockchain. The survey included input from providers, payers, pharmaceutical companies and medical device vendors.
Healthcare industry and government stakeholders have suggested various efforts to use blockchain, a permanent and shared ledger of online transactions or exchanges, to streamline healthcare operations in recent years. Unlike a traditional database that is centrally located and maintained by one party, a blockchain record...
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