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To review foundational blockchain concepts, analyze emerging nonfinancial distributed ledger architectures, and evaluate their potential applications, benefits, and challenges in biomedical and healthcare domains.

June 30, 2017Journal of the American Medical Informatics AssociationOpen Access

Blockchain distributed ledger technologies for biomedical and health care applications

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TKTsung-Ting KuoUC San Diego Health System HKHyeoneui KimSeoul National University LOLucila Ohno‐MachadoYale University

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Narrative review examines blockchain distributed ledger applications across biomedical domains, highlighting security advantages and implementation challenges over traditional databases.

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To review foundational blockchain concepts, analyze emerging nonfinancial distributed ledger architectures, and evaluate their potential applications, benefits, and challenges in biomedical and healthcare domains.
Synthesized technical features of blockchain and distributed ledger technologies alongside alternative consensus mechanisms.
Evaluated healthcare application use cases by comparing blockchain frameworks against traditional distributed databases.
Identified critical technical and regulatory challenges associated with deploying decentralized ledgers in biomedical systems.
Identified distinct structural advantages of blockchain over traditional databases, including immutable data provenance, decentralized consensus, and enhanced data integrity for sensitive health records.
Mapped emerging biomedical applications across clinical trial tracking, electronic health record interoperability, and secure medical data sharing.
Outlined key adoption barriers, highlighting scalability limits, computational overhead, data privacy compliance, and integration complexity with legacy medical infrastructure.

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Kuo et al. (2017) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69d982f6e6ab964fb0835e2e https://doi.org/10.1093/jamia/ocx068

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Narrative review examines blockchain distributed ledger applications across biomedical domains, highlighting security advantages and implementation challenges over traditional databases.

Blockchain distributed ledger technologies for biomedical and health care applications

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Blockchain distributed ledger technologies for biomedical and health care applications

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