Blockchain or Distributed Ledger Technology What Is in It for the Healthcare Industry?

Nabil Georges Badr

2019

Abstract

Distributed ledger technology has seen its debut into communities of practice in healthcare where the reliance on knowledge sharing between participants postulates the foundations of secure and distributed knowledge, especially in some sensitive context, such as patient information. This knowledge is essential for the practice of care from patient contact to research, pharmaceutical supply chain, medication adherence and management of the plethora of bedside data into a collection of knowledge about the patient, essential to quality care. We introduce different schools of thought and implementation contexts of the distributed ledger technology or Blockchain. We provide an overview of Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology, focused on the Healthcare industry, as an initial assessment of the validity of an application of Distributed Ledger Technology in a specific knowledge management model to solve problems related to knowledge sharing in medical knowledge management systems. The paper summarizes some instances of most likely and unlikely uses of Blockchain in the healthcare setting. The paper also introduces a few use cases where some short-term benefits from such implementation.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Badr N. (2019). Blockchain or Distributed Ledger Technology What Is in It for the Healthcare Industry?. In Proceedings of the 11th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (IC3K 2019) - Volume 3: KMIS; ISBN 978-989-758-382-7, SciTePress, pages 277-284. DOI: 10.5220/0008348902770284

in Bibtex Style

@conference{kmis19,
author={Nabil Georges Badr},
title={Blockchain or Distributed Ledger Technology What Is in It for the Healthcare Industry?},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 11th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (IC3K 2019) - Volume 3: KMIS},
year={2019},
pages={277-284},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0008348902770284},
isbn={978-989-758-382-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 11th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (IC3K 2019) - Volume 3: KMIS
TI - Blockchain or Distributed Ledger Technology What Is in It for the Healthcare Industry?
SN - 978-989-758-382-7
AU - Badr N.
PY - 2019
SP - 277
EP - 284
DO - 10.5220/0008348902770284
PB - SciTePress