Blockchain: A Panacea for Electronic Health Records?

Kassab, Mohamad; DeFranco, Joanna F.; Malas, Tarek; Neto, Valdemar Vicente Graciano; Destefanis, Giuseppe

doi:10.1109/seh.2019.00011

Cited by 28 publications

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“…Most databases store data and regulate access in a centralized fashion, which constitutes a weak point for security breaches as frequently reported in the US [125]. Methods that rely on decentralized networks, such as blockchain, have been suggested to provide additional security and data ownership for individuals [126][127][128]. However, as with all data security measures, there remains a trade-off between affordable protection and making data sufficiently accessible to researchers.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Big Data Approaches in Heart Failure Research

Lanzer

Leuschner

Kramann

et al. 2020

Curr Heart Fail Rep

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Purpose of Review The goal of this review is to summarize the state of big data analyses in the study of heart failure (HF). We discuss the use of big data in the HF space, focusing on “omics” and clinical data. We address some limitations of this data, as well as their future potential. Recent Findings Omics are providing insight into plasmal and myocardial molecular profiles in HF patients. The introduction of single cell and spatial technologies is a major advance that will reshape our understanding of cell heterogeneity and function as well as tissue architecture. Clinical data analysis focuses on HF phenotyping and prognostic modeling. Summary Big data approaches are increasingly common in HF research. The use of methods designed for big data, such as machine learning, may help elucidate the biology underlying HF. However, important challenges remain in the translation of this knowledge into improvements in clinical care.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Big Data Approaches in Heart Failure Research

Lanzer

Leuschner

Kramann

et al. 2020

Curr Heart Fail Rep

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“…For several years, healthcare has been considered an area with high potential for blockchain application. Potential uses include storing, sharing, and exchanging medical data using various access control strategies [3,14]. For example, Agbo et al [15] identified some crucial application areas, such as electronic medical records (EMRs), drug/pharmaceutical supply chains, biomedical research and education, remote patient monitoring (RPM), health insurance claims, and health data analytics (HDA).…”

Section: Blockchain In Healthcarementioning

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VacChain: A Blockchain-Based EMR System to Manage Child Vaccination Records

Alnssayan¹,

Hassan²,

Alsuhibany³

2022

Computer Systems Science and Engineering

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The digitalization of healthcare-related information service systems has become a trend across the world. However, several crucial services are still provided manually due to a lack of trust in digital solutions. One such service is keeping records of children's vaccination, which still relies on a paper-based file system in most parts of the world. This approach causes serious data integrity problems. Recently, healthcare has become a potential application area of the blockchain, as it can preserve and protect highly sensitive private medical records while sharing these records in a decentralized manner without losing personal ownership. Therefore, we propose a new digital model to track a child's vaccination records using blockchain. In particular, this proposed application helps improve the vaccination record-keeping process by ensuring the integrity of the preserved data in a more secure way. In an emerging pandemic situation, our approach can be extended to manage the overall vaccination process effectively.

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“…Although many of the the World Health Organization's (WHO) systems 9 and a numerous number of global regulations (e.g., Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA) 10 ) were designed to help on the protection of integrity of the medication supply chain by gathering data at each step of a medication's journey, the global trade in counterfeit medicines continues to be robust with remarkable risks to general public. Counterfeit drugs could contain inactive ingredients, incorrect dosage of active ingredients and/or potential contaminants causing possible adverse allergic reactions [61].…”

Section: Medical Supply Chainmentioning

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“…While we presented an initial view from the review in short papers [9], [10] focusing only on the usage of blockchain in managing the healthcare records, this paper presents the extended results from the review along with the complete set of mappings and process descriptions.…”

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Exploring Research in Blockchain for Healthcare and a Roadmap for the Future

Kassab

DeFranco

Malas

et al. 2021

IEEE Trans. Emerg. Topics Comput.

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Healthcare is a data-intensive domain, once a considerable volume of data is daily to monitoring patients, managing clinical research, producing medical records, and processing medical insurance claims. While the focus of applications of blockchain in practice has been to build distributed ledgers involving virtual tokens, the impetus of this emerging technology has now extended to the medical domain. With the increased popularity, it is crucial to study how this technology accompanied with a system for smart contracts can support and challenge the healthcare domain for all interrelated actors (patients, physicians, insurance companies, regulators) and involved assets (e.g. patients' data, physician's data, equipment's and drug's supply chain, etc.). The contributions of this paper are the following: (i) report the results of a systematic literature review conducted to identify, extract, evaluate and synthesize the studies on the symbiosis of blockchain in healthcare; (ii) summarize and categorize existing benefits/challenges on incorporating blockchain in healthcare domain; (iii) provide a framework that will facilitate new research activities; and (iv) establish the state of evidence with in-depth assessment.

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Blockchain: A Panacea for Electronic Health Records?

Cited by 28 publications

References 11 publications

Big Data Approaches in Heart Failure Research

Big Data Approaches in Heart Failure Research

VacChain: A Blockchain-Based EMR System to Manage Child Vaccination Records

Exploring Research in Blockchain for Healthcare and a Roadmap for the Future

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