Healthcare Informatics October 30, 2018
Michael L. Gagnon

Blockchain offers the opportunity to finally ensure that a complete record of a patient’s clinical data is truly available to the patient and clinician regardless of where the patient received care
Locating the health-related records and transactions of patients across their numerous and different healthcare providers, payers, pharmacy benefit managers and other entities is an expensive and complex problem.

With many years of experience addressing this issue in different healthcare systems and health information exchanges (HIEs), it is apparent that there is now a compelling and relatively straightforward technical solution for this problem: A blockchain-based record locator.

Blockchain’s key characteristics as a decentralized, highly resilient,...

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