RESUMEN
Blockchain is a shared distributed digital ledger technology that can better facilitate data management, provenance and security, and has the potential to transform healthcare. Importantly, blockchain represents a data architecture, whose application goes far beyond Bitcoin - the cryptocurrency that relies on blockchain and has popularized the technology. In the health sector, blockchain is being aggressively explored by various stakeholders to optimize business processes, lower costs, improve patient outcomes, enhance compliance, and enable better use of healthcare-related data. However, critical in assessing whether blockchain can fulfill the hype of a technology characterized as 'revolutionary' and 'disruptive', is the need to ensure that blockchain design elements consider actual healthcare needs from the diverse perspectives of consumers, patients, providers, and regulators. In addition, answering the real needs of healthcare stakeholders, blockchain approaches must also be responsive to the unique challenges faced in healthcare compared to other sectors of the economy. In this sense, ensuring that a health blockchain is 'fit-for-purpose' is pivotal. This concept forms the basis for this article, where we share views from a multidisciplinary group of practitioners at the forefront of blockchain conceptualization, development, and deployment.
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Tecnología Biomédica , Redes de Comunicación de Computadores , Atención a la Salud/tendencias , Sistemas de Información Administrativa , Informática Médica , Tecnología Biomédica/métodos , Tecnología Biomédica/organización & administración , Tecnología Biomédica/tendencias , Redes de Comunicación de Computadores/organización & administración , Redes de Comunicación de Computadores/normas , Redes de Comunicación de Computadores/provisión & distribución , Redes de Comunicación de Computadores/tendencias , Data Warehousing/métodos , Data Warehousing/tendencias , Atención a la Salud/métodos , Atención a la Salud/organización & administración , Procesamiento Automatizado de Datos/métodos , Procesamiento Automatizado de Datos/organización & administración , Procesamiento Automatizado de Datos/tendencias , Utilización de Equipos y Suministros/organización & administración , Utilización de Equipos y Suministros/tendencias , Ensayos Analíticos de Alto Rendimiento/normas , Humanos , Sistemas de Información Administrativa/normas , Sistemas de Información Administrativa/tendencias , Informática Médica/métodos , Informática Médica/organización & administración , Informática Médica/tendencias , Registros Médicos/normasRESUMEN
The theme of the third annual Spring workshop of the HUPO-PSI was "proteomics and beyond" and its underlying goal was to reach beyond the boundaries of the proteomics community to interact with groups working on the similar issues of developing interchange standards and minimal reporting requirements. Significant developments in many of the HUPO-PSI XML interchange formats, minimal reporting requirements and accompanying controlled vocabularies were reported, with many of these now feeding into the broader efforts of the Functional Genomics Experiment (FuGE) data model and Functional Genomics Ontology (FuGO) ontologies.
