Chapter 3 Blockchain Applications and Uses: Healthcare Industry
The potential exists for blockchain-based technology to significantly improve the healthcare industry. However, there are challenges posed by the widespread adoption of blockchain-based technology in health care. This chapter begins with a brief refresher of what blockchain technology is and then covers a variety of benefits and challenges to utilizing blockchain, specifically in health care. Among the purported benefits of blockchain is its potential to improve the accuracy and efficiency of medical data collection and sharing. Additional benefits of blockchain within health care are to enable new healthcare-related applications, such as decentralized clinical trials and secure ...
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