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Smart Contracts and Shared Platforms in Sustainable Health Care: Systematic Review

Smart Contracts and Shared Platforms in Sustainable Health Care: Systematic Review

This affirmation is essential when technologies—including blockchain and SCs—are introduced in fields such as health care [11]. A blockchain is a distributed ledger [14] formed by chronologically ordered blocks [15,16]. It consists of multiple nodes connected peer to peer [15] and without a hierarchy among them [15]. Each block has an identification linked to the previous one via a reference or hash [14,15].

Carlos Antonio Marino, Claudia Diaz Paz

JMIR Med Inform 2025;13:e58575

Appropriately Matching Transport Care Units to Patients in Interhospital Transport Care: Implementation Study

Appropriately Matching Transport Care Units to Patients in Interhospital Transport Care: Implementation Study

On the other hand, FHIRChain incorporates the HL7 FHIR (Health Level Seven Fast Health care Interoperability Resources) standard for clinical data and explores the possibilities of blockchain-based data sharing. The challenges posed by permissionless blockchain technology and the associated privacy concerns are acknowledged, highlighting the necessity for a permissioned blockchain approach to ensure enhanced security and user management.

Shirin Hasavari, Pouyan Esmaeilzadeh

JMIR Form Res 2024;8:e65626

Automatic Recommender System of Development Platforms for Smart Contract–Based Health Care Insurance Fraud Detection Solutions: Taxonomy and Performance Evaluation

Automatic Recommender System of Development Platforms for Smart Contract–Based Health Care Insurance Fraud Detection Solutions: Taxonomy and Performance Evaluation

Before adding a block to the blockchain, a consensus is reached among peers. In addition, blockchain can execute smart contracts [11]. Blockchain has demonstrated its potential in various domains, including the health care system [12,13]. In particular, smart contracts in a blockchain were introduced as self-executing agents based on the transactions being executed [14].

Rima Kaafarani, Leila Ismail, Oussama Zahwe

J Med Internet Res 2024;26:e50730

Designing A Blockchain-Empowered Telehealth Artifact for Decentralized Identity Management and Trustworthy Communication: Interdisciplinary Approach

Designing A Blockchain-Empowered Telehealth Artifact for Decentralized Identity Management and Trustworthy Communication: Interdisciplinary Approach

According to the draft on Blockchain Technology Overview by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), blockchain is an immutable digital ledger system implemented in a distributed fashion (ie, without a central repository) and usually without a central authority. There are 2 major forms of blockchain-based systems: public blockchain and private blockchain [31].

Xueping Liang, Nabid Alam, Tahmina Sultana, Eranga Bandara, Sachin Shetty

J Med Internet Res 2024;26:e46556

Electronic Health Record–Oriented Knowledge Graph System for Collaborative Clinical Decision Support Using Multicenter Fragmented Medical Data: Design and Application Study

Electronic Health Record–Oriented Knowledge Graph System for Collaborative Clinical Decision Support Using Multicenter Fragmented Medical Data: Design and Application Study

The distribution component and blockchain network collaborate on intermediate reasoning results without exposing original data for privacy concerns. Subsequently, fragmented patient information from multiple hospitals is used to generate comprehensive CDS with complete clinical evidence.

Yong Shang, Yu Tian, Kewei Lyu, Tianshu Zhou, Ping Zhang, Jianghua Chen, Jingsong Li

J Med Internet Res 2024;26:e54263

Decentralizing Health Care: History and Opportunities of Web3

Decentralizing Health Care: History and Opportunities of Web3

Web3 is also referred to as the decentralized web, or the blockchain web, and represents the next stage of the internet wherein data are stored on decentralized networks of computers rather than by individual, centralized entities. Web3 aims to create a more secure, transparent, and user-owned paradigm built on blockchain technology and peer-to-peer networks which enable users to securely interact with one another without the need for intermediaries.

Aditya Narayan, Kydo Weng, Nirav Shah

JMIR Form Res 2024;8:e52740

Blockchain-Based Dynamic Consent and its Applications for Patient-Centric Research and Health Information Sharing: Protocol for an Integrative Review

Blockchain-Based Dynamic Consent and its Applications for Patient-Centric Research and Health Information Sharing: Protocol for an Integrative Review

Last, blockchain technologies are currently used to automate downstream researcher access to data based on individuals’ preferences without the burden and expense of manual curation [9]. While promising, dynamic consent based on blockchain technology is a relatively new concept, and it is unclear how well it functions in real-world health research environments.

Wendy M Charles, Mark B van der Waal, Joost Flach, Arno Bisschop, Raymond X van der Waal, Hadil Es-Sbai, Christopher J McLeod

JMIR Res Protoc 2024;13:e50339

Architectural Design of a Blockchain-Enabled, Federated Learning Platform for Algorithmic Fairness in Predictive Health Care: Design Science Study

Architectural Design of a Blockchain-Enabled, Federated Learning Platform for Algorithmic Fairness in Predictive Health Care: Design Science Study

To fill these gaps, this study aims to detect the bias in health care data, improve the fairness of predictive models using FL, and enhance trust and fairness through blockchain-assisted FL. We propose a blockchain-empowered, decentralized FL platform that improves fairness in predictive models in the health care domain while preserving privacy. We adopted a blockchain platform to establish ML models with the existing data on its off-chain storage.

Xueping Liang, Juan Zhao, Yan Chen, Eranga Bandara, Sachin Shetty

J Med Internet Res 2023;25:e46547

Fortifying Health Care Intellectual Property Transactions With Blockchain

Fortifying Health Care Intellectual Property Transactions With Blockchain

The shared governance of blockchain enhances transaction security by reducing the potential for manipulation and opportunism. Furthermore, the immutable feature of the blockchain (in a permissionless blockchain, not a private blockchain) makes it difficult for miners to tamper with trading records, reducing transaction costs and enabling monitoring mechanisms to detect stakeholders’ opportunistic behaviors [58].

Huan-Wei Liang, Yuan-Chia Chu, Tsung-Hsien Han

J Med Internet Res 2023;25:e44578

Comparing Decentralized Learning Methods for Health Data Models to Nondecentralized Alternatives: Protocol for a Systematic Review

Comparing Decentralized Learning Methods for Health Data Models to Nondecentralized Alternatives: Protocol for a Systematic Review

The systematic review based on this protocol aims to, first, compare the performance among health data models developed or validated using decentralized learning approaches (eg, federated and blockchain) to those developed using nondecentralized methods (eg, centralized and local). These can include applications such as automated diagnosis, segmentation of lesions or features, as well as mortality prediction.

José Miguel Diniz, Henrique Vasconcelos, Júlio Souza, Rita Rb-Silva, Carolina Ameijeiras-Rodriguez, Alberto Freitas

JMIR Res Protoc 2023;12:e45823