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Tsung-Ting Kuo1, Hyeon-Eui Kim1, Lucila Ohno-Machado1,2
1UCSD Health Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.
Objectives:
To introduce blockchain technologies, including their benefits, pitfalls, and the latest applications, to the biomedical and health care domains.
Target Audience:
Biomedical and health care informatics researchers who would like to learn about blockchain technologies and their applications in the biomedical/health care domains.
Scope:
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.
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