HIT Infrastructure May 10, 2018
Healthcare blockchain may be slow to catch on due to the technology being so different from other legacy health IT infrastructure solutions.
Healthcare blockchain is creating a lot of industry buzz and several solutions have been released this year. Blockchain development and implementation are quickly gaining momentum, but the technology may not be a standard part of health IT infrastructure as soon as predicted.
A recent Gartner survey polled CIOs from across all industries, including healthcare, and revealed that only 1 percent of CIOs indicated that they have already invested and deployed blockchain. Compared to how much the technology is talked about, 1 percent is an extremely minimal adoption rate.
In addition to the low adoption rate, 77 percent of...
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