UCSD Health Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA.
Department of Mathematics, East Los Angeles College, Monterey Park, California, USA.
J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2019 May 1;26(5):462-478. doi: 10.1093/jamia/ocy185.
To introduce healthcare or biomedical blockchain applications and their underlying blockchain platforms, compare popular blockchain platforms using a systematic review method, and provide a reference for selection of a suitable blockchain platform given requirements and technical features that are common in healthcare and biomedical research applications.
Healthcare or clinical informatics researchers and software engineers who would like to learn about the important technical features of different blockchain platforms to design and implement blockchain-based health informatics applications.
Covered topics include (1) a brief introduction to healthcare or biomedical blockchain applications and the benefits to adopt blockchain; (2) a description of key features of underlying blockchain platforms in healthcare applications; (3) development of a method for systematic review of technology, based on the PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses) statement, to investigate blockchain platforms for healthcare and medicine applications; (4) a review of 21 healthcare-related technical features of 10 popular blockchain platforms; and (5) a discussion of findings and limitations of the review.
介绍医疗保健或生物医学区块链应用及其底层区块链平台,使用系统综述方法比较流行的区块链平台,并根据医疗保健和生物医学研究应用中常见的要求和技术特征,为选择合适的区块链平台提供参考。
希望了解不同区块链平台的重要技术特征,以设计和实现基于区块链的健康信息应用的医疗保健或临床信息学研究人员和软件工程师。
涵盖的主题包括(1)简要介绍医疗保健或生物医学区块链应用及其采用区块链的好处;(2)描述医疗保健应用中底层区块链平台的关键特征;(3)根据 PRISMA(系统评价和荟萃分析的首选报告项目)声明制定系统综述技术方法,以调查医疗保健和医学应用的区块链平台;(4)审查 10 个流行区块链平台的 21 个与医疗保健相关的技术特征;(5)讨论审查结果和局限性。