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Blockchain In Healthcare: A New Perspective From Social Media Data, Andrew Caietti
Blockchain In Healthcare: A New Perspective From Social Media Data, Andrew Caietti
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Blockchain as a technology has brought with it a wave of promises and expectations. After its successes in the financial sector, many potential new applications of the technology have been theorized across a variety of sectors. Blockchain’s application to healthcare stands out among these theories. Healthcare is a sector that views technological innovation under more scrutiny, so the introduction of blockchain into healthcare is a particularly unique implementation of the technology. Attempting to understand how blockchain is accepted in the healthcare industry is a difficult problem due to the nature of data associated with the sector. One avenue to understand …