Hitching Healthcare to the Chain: An Introduction to Blockchain Technology in the Healthcare Sector
Hitching Healthcare to the Chain: An Introduction to Blockchain Technology in the Healthcare Sector
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DOI：
10.22215/timreview/1111
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发表时间：
2017-10-01
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1.8
通讯作者：
Engelhardt, Mark A.
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作者：
Engelhardt, Mark A.
医疗服务必须在患者护理与信息隐私、访问和完整性之间取得平衡。医疗保健行业的庞大规模也放大了成本控制的重要性。区块链技术在医疗服务中的承诺，加上其上构建的应用层，将成为一种提供最大隐私的机制，同时确保适当的用户可以轻松地添加和访问永久信息记录。区块链，也称为分布式分类账，通过直接连接利益相关者而不需要第三方经纪人，实现了降低成本和提高信息可获得性的组合，有可能以更低的成本提供更好的结果。新的企业正在寻求应用区块链技术来解决现实世界的问题，包括努力跟踪公共卫生、集中研究数据、监控和履行处方、降低管理费用，以及从越来越多的输入中组织患者数据。在这里，描述了区块链技术在卫生领域应用的具体例子，触及了近期的前景和挑战。
Health services must balance patient care with information privacy, access, and completeness. The massive scale of the healthcare industry also amplifies the importance of cost control. The promise of blockchain technology in health services, combined with application layers built atop it, is to be a mechanism that provides utmost privacy while ensuring that appropriate users can easily add to and access a permanent record of information. Blockchains, also called distributed ledgers, enable a combination of cost reduction and increased accessibility to information by connecting stake-holders directly without requirements for third-party brokers, potentially giving better results at lower costs. New ventures are looking to apply blockchain technology to solve real-world problems, including efforts to track public health, centralize research data, monitor and fulfill prescriptions, lower administrative overheads, and organize patient data from an increasing number of inputs. Here, concrete examples of the application of blockchain technology in the health sector are described, touching on near-term promise and challenges.