Emerging Blockchain Technology Solutions for Modern Healthcare Infrastructure

Proposal for Chapter 3 Blockchain Technology Use Cases in Healthcare

Blockchain technology alleviates the reliance on a centralized authority to certify information integrity and ownership, as well as mediate transactions and exchange of digital assets, while enabling secure and pseudo-anonymous transactions along with agreements directly between interacting parties. It possesses key properties, such as immutability, decentralization, and transparency, that pote...

Advanced technology program: information infrastructure for healthcare focused program.

This paper describes an initiative begun by the Advanced Technology Program in 1994 referred to as the Information Infrastructure for Healthcare (IIH) focused program. The IIH focus program began with an initial exchange of ideas among members of the private and public sectors (industry's submission of "white papers"; workshops conducted by the ATP; meetings held between individuals from both g...

Blockchain Technology in Finance

Market Design for Trading with Blockchain Technology

An intrinsic feature of blockchain technology is the so-called distributed ledger, which involves maintaining a decentralized record of all transactions for a security. A distributed ledger allows anyone with access to it to identify asset holdings by (anonymous) identifiers. In this paper, we argue that the mapping between identifiers and end-investors should be a market design choice. We capt...

Blockchain Technology for Next Generation ICT

Blockchain technology, which supports low-cost decentralized distributed data management featuring tamper resistance, high availability, and transparency, is a breakthrough technology that will lead to the next generation of information and communications technology (ICT). Originally devised to support the Bitcoin digital currency, it is expected to be applied to a broad range of financial appl...