7 days ago | By HealthWorks Collective
Blockchain technology, a powerful and integral part of decentralized applications, has been gaining a great deal of attention over the last year. However, it is still not very clear how blockchain will be used in the healthcare industry. Although it is changing the healthcare industry , experts are still debating the extent that it will do so.
The main idea behind the development of blockchain technology was to create an open, decentralized database that could manage transactions between two parties without the need for a central authority or trusted third party. When making transactions...
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