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Blockchain distributed ledger technologies for biomedical and health care applications

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This paper introduces blockchain technologies, including their benefits, pitfalls, and the latest applications, to the biomedical and health care domains and discusses the potential challenges and proposed solutions of adopting blockchain technologies in biomedical/health care domains.
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This article is published in Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.The article was published on 2017-11-01 and is currently open access. It has received 798 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Blockchain & Health information exchange.

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A systematic literature review of blockchain-based applications: Current status, classification and open issues

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Blockchain Technology in Healthcare: A Systematic Review.

TL;DR: There is a need for more research to better understand, characterize and evaluate the utility of blockchain in healthcare, and the state-of-the-art in the development of blockchain applications for healthcare, their limitations and the areas for future research are highlighted.
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A Survey of Blockchain Technology Applied to Smart Cities: Research Issues and Challenges

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FHIRChain: Applying Blockchain to Securely and Scalably Share Clinical Data.

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Blockchain research, practice and policy: Applications, benefits, limitations, emerging research themes and research agenda

TL;DR: It is asserted that blockchain technology has the potential to contribute to a number of the UN Sustainability Development Goals and engender widespread change within a number-of-established industries and practices.
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