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A Case Study in Blockchain Health Care Innovation
International journal of current research, Vol.9(11), pp.60587-60588
2017
Abstract
Healthcare complexity and costs can be decreased through to medical records and insurance companies. Estonia has taken a leadership role in blockchain b services both in the commercial sector and in government. The Estonian government's innovation strategy was to create GovTech partnerships to implement blockchain based technologies throughout the country, and become a global leader in the technology. Nakamoto published the first description of distributed ledgers and blockchain technology, the Estonian Government started partnering with the private technology startup company Guardtime to use blockchains to global leadership in blockchain technology when it announced it would use blockchain technology to secure the health records of over a million citizens. Estonia's systemati blockchain technologies through GovTech partnerships demnostrates how innovation is a process. Estonia also identified early the value of the blockchain as a disruptive platform innovation. The application of blockchain technology to previous applications have been in the financial and legal sectors.
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- Title
- A Case Study in Blockchain Health Care Innovation
- Creators
- Thomas F. Heston (Author) - Washington State University, Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine
- Publication Details
- International journal of current research, Vol.9(11), pp.60587-60588
- Academic Unit
- Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine
- Identifiers
- 99901107740001842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article