2019
‘Fit-for-purpose?’ – challenges and opportunities for applications of blockchain technology in the future of healthcare
Mackey T, Kuo T, Gummadi B, Clauson K, Church G, Grishin D, Obbad K, Barkovich R, Palombini M. ‘Fit-for-purpose?’ – challenges and opportunities for applications of blockchain technology in the future of healthcare. BMC Medicine 2019, 17: 68. PMID: 30914045, PMCID: PMC6436239, DOI: 10.1186/s12916-019-1296-7.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsApplication of blockchain technologyHealthcare-related dataBlockchain approachBusiness processesHealth blockchainBlockchain technologyData architectureBlockchainData managementTransform healthcareMultidisciplinary groups of practitionersImprove patient outcomesHealthcare stakeholdersHealthcare needsGroup of practitionersHealth sectorMultidisciplinary groupDesign elementsDataHealthcarePatient outcomesPerspective of consumersTechnologyEnhance complianceLow cost
2018
Identifying and characterizing highly similar notes in big clinical note datasets
Gabriel R, Kuo T, McAuley J, Hsu C. Identifying and characterizing highly similar notes in big clinical note datasets. Journal Of Biomedical Informatics 2018, 82: 63-69. PMID: 29679685, DOI: 10.1016/j.jbi.2018.04.009.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsClinical note datasetsDe-duplication algorithmMIMIC-III datasetElectronic health recordsJaccard similarityDe-duplicationLocality sensitive hashingMIMIC-IIINear-duplicatesScalable algorithmMeasure similarityAccurate statistical modelsSources of duplicationClustering methodDatasetAlgorithmApproximation algorithmHealth recordsDisjoint setsInstitutional datasetComparison of notesPairs of notesHashPairwise comparisonsPairwise
2017
Blockchain distributed ledger technologies for biomedical and health care applications
Kuo T, Kim H, Ohno-Machado L. Blockchain distributed ledger technologies for biomedical and health care applications. Journal Of The American Medical Informatics Association 2017, 24: 1211-1220. PMID: 29016974, PMCID: PMC6080687, DOI: 10.1093/jamia/ocx068.Peer-Reviewed Reviews, Practice Guidelines, Standards, and Consensus StatementsConceptsHealth care domainHealth care applicationsBlockchain technologyLedger technologyCare domainFeatures of blockchainBenefits of blockchainCare applicationsFamous BitcoinInformatics researchersBlockchainTechnologyApplicationsCovered topicsBitcoinDomainLatest applicationsPotential challengesDatabase