Applications of Blockchain in the Medical Field: Narrative Review

• Published in: Journal of medical Internet research Vol. 23; no. 10; p. e28613
• Main Authors: Xie, Yi, Zhang, Jiayao, Wang, Honglin, Liu, Pengran, Liu, Songxiang, Huo, Tongtong, Duan, Yu-Yu, Dong, Zhe, Lu, Lin, Ye, Zhewei
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Canada Gunther Eysenbach MD MPH, Associate Professor 28.10.2021; JMIR Publications
• Subjects: Application; Biomedical research; Blockchain; Classification; Computerized medical records; Computerized physician order entry; Confidentiality; Consortia; Coronaviruses; COVID-19; Cryptography; Data Management; Decentralization; Electronic Health Records; Epidemics; Health care industry; Health information; Health insurance; Health records; Health services; Humans; Information sharing; Integrated care; Internet of Things; Literature reviews; Medical libraries; Medical technology; Metadata; Pandemics; Patients; Personal health; Privacy; Product safety; Review; SARS-CoV-2; Supply chains; Systematic review; Wearable computers; COVID-19; blockchain; health data; review; electronic health records; health care; smart health care

As a distributed technology, blockchain has attracted increasing attention from stakeholders in the medical industry. Although previous studies have analyzed blockchain applications from the perspectives of technology, business, or patient care, few studies have focused on actual use-case scenarios...