Kuo Tsung-Ting, Kim Hyeon-Eui, Ohno-Machado Lucila
UCSD Health Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.
Division of Health Services Research and Development, Veterans Administration San Diego Healthcare System, La Jolla, CA, USA.
J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2017 Nov 1;24(6):1211-1220. doi: 10.1093/jamia/ocx068.
To introduce blockchain technologies, including their benefits, pitfalls, and the latest applications, to the biomedical and health care domains.
Biomedical and health care informatics researchers who would like to learn about blockchain technologies and their applications in the biomedical/health care domains.
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.
向生物医学和医疗保健领域介绍区块链技术，包括其优势、缺陷及最新应用。
希望了解区块链技术及其在生物医学/医疗保健领域应用的生物医学和医疗保健信息学研究人员。
涵盖的主题包括：（1）著名的比特币加密货币及底层区块链技术介绍；（2）区块链的特点；（3）替代区块链技术综述；（4）新兴的非金融分布式账本技术及应用；（5）与传统分布式数据库相比，区块链在生物医学/医疗保健应用中的优势；（6）区块链技术最新生物医学/医疗保健应用概述；（7）在生物医学/医疗保健领域采用区块链技术的潜在挑战及建议解决方案的讨论。
