Background Blockchain offers a promising new distributed technology to address the
challenges of data standardization, system interoperability, security, privacy, and …

Background As a distributed technology, blockchain has attracted increasing attention from
stakeholders in the medical industry. Although previous studies have analyzed blockchain …

Background In the era of big data, artificial intelligence (AI), and the Internet of Things (IoT),
digital data have become essential for our everyday functioning and in health care services …

Background The application of blockchain technology is being explored to improve the
interoperability of patient health information between healthcare organisations while …

Background Nowadays, a number of mechanisms and tools are being used by health care
organizations and physicians to electronically exchange the personal health information of …

Objectives To introduce healthcare or biomedical blockchain applications and their
underlying blockchain platforms, compare popular blockchain platforms using a systematic …

Background Academic literature highlights blockchain's potential to transform health care,
particularly by seamlessly and securely integrating existing data silos while enabling …

Since blockchain was introduced through Bitcoin, research has been ongoing to extend its
applications to non-financial use cases. Healthcare is one industry in which blockchain is …

Background The decentralized nature of sensitive health information can bring about
situations where timely information is unavailable, worsening health outcomes. Furthermore …

Background Blockchain technology has the potential to enable more secure, transparent,
and equitable data management. In the health care domain, it has been applied most …