Implications of Blockchain Technology in the Health Domain

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2021-09-09

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Baysal, Merve Vildan
Özcan Top, Özden
Betin Can, Aysu

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Blockchains are tamper-evident and tamper-resistant digital ledgers. Due to their distributed and shared nature, and their cryptographic functions, blockchains are resilient to alterations. They provide a trustworthy environment for the data stored in the ledgers. However, each new technology brings its own challenges along with the opportunities. Our minds are still busy with the question of “how could blockchain technology potentially benefit us?” In this paper, we approach to this question from the health domain perspective. Based on a systematic literature review, we discuss to what extent blockchain could provide solutions for the challenges inherited in the health domain and if blockchain technology introduces new challenges for development of health applications. The review included 27 publications which share experiences of practitioners from 2016 to 2020.

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Blockchain, Health applications, Software development challenges, Systematic literature review

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https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-70873-3_45
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/92807

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70873-3_45

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International Conference on Software Engineering Research and Practice

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M. V. Baysal, Ö. Özcan Top, and A. Betin Can, “Implications of Blockchain Technology in the Health Domain,” presented at the International Conference on Software Engineering Research and Practice, Nevada, Amerika Birleşik Devletleri, 2021, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-70873-3_45.