Blockchain distributed ledger technologies for biomedical and health care applications.
Blockchain distributed ledger technologies for biomedical and health care applications.
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DOI：
10.1093/jamia/ocx068
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发表时间：
2017-11-01
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通讯作者：
Ohno-Machado L
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作者：
Kuo TT;Kim HE;Ohno-Machado L
将区块链技术，包括其优势、缺陷以及最新应用，引入生物医学和医疗保健领域。
希望了解区块链技术及其在生物医学/医疗保健领域应用的生物医学和医疗保健信息学研究人员。
涵盖的主题包括：（1）著名的比特币加密货币及底层区块链技术介绍；（2）区块链的特征；（3）其他区块链技术综述；（4）新兴的非金融分布式账本技术及应用；（5）与传统分布式数据库相比，区块链在生物医学/医疗保健应用中的优势；（6）区块链技术在生物医学/医疗保健领域最新应用概述；（7）在生物医学/医疗保健领域采用区块链技术的潜在挑战及提出的解决方案的讨论。
To introduce blockchain technologies, including their benefits, pitfalls, and the latest applications, to the biomedical and health care domains. Biomedical and health care informatics researchers who would like to learn about blockchain technologies and their applications in the biomedical/health care domains. The covered topics include: (1) introduction to the famous Bitcoin crypto-currency and the underlying blockchain technology; (2) features of blockchain; (3) review of alternative blockchain technologies; (4) emerging nonfinancial distributed ledger technologies and applications; (5) benefits of blockchain for biomedical/health care applications when compared to traditional distributed databases; (6) overview of the latest biomedical/health care applications of blockchain technologies; and (7) discussion of the potential challenges and proposed solutions of adopting blockchain technologies in biomedical/health care domains.