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A review of Pubmed, IEEEXplore, Engineering Village, and Scopus was conducted to identify use cases for blockchain in healthcare from 2016 through Q1, 2025. Special thanks to the Capstone Program at Northeastern University for their student involvement and execution of this literature review.

  1. Liang X, Alam N, Sultana T, Bandara E, Shetty S. Designing a blockchain-empowered telehealth artifact for decentralized identity management and trustworthy communication: interdisciplinary approach. J Med Internet Res. 2024;26(2):e46556. doi:2196/46556.
  2. Gaynor M, Gillespie K, Roe A, Crannage E, Tuttle-Newhall J. Blockchain applications in the pharmaceutical industry. Blockchain Healthc Today. 2024;7(1). doi:30953/bhty.v7.298.
  3. Bathalapalli VKV, Mohanty SP, Kougianos E, Iyer V, Rout B. PUFchain 3.0: hardware-assisted distributed ledger for robust authentication in healthcare cyber-physical systems. Sensors. 2024;24(3):938. doi:3390/s24030938 .
  4. Sanchez W, Linder L, Miller RC, Hood A, Gross MS. Non-fungible tokens for organoids: decentralized biobanking to empower patients in biospecimen Research. Blockchain Healthc Today. 2024;7:303. doi:30953/bhty.v7.303.
  5. Khurshid A, Harrell DT, Li D, Hallmark C, Hanson L, Viswanathan N, et al. Designing a blockchain technology platform for enhancing the pre-exposure prophylaxis care continuum. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2024;31(1):78-86. doi:1093/jamiaopen/ooae140.
  6. Krishnasamy S, Gopalakrishnan BN. Moving beyond proof of concept and pilots to mainstream: discovery and lessons from blockchain in healthcare. Blockchain Healthc Today. 2023;6:280. doi:30953/bhty.v6.280.
  7. Bautista JR, Harrell DT, Hanson L, de Oliveira E, Abdul-Moheeth M, Meyer ET, et al. MediLinker: a blockchain-based decentralized health information management platform for patient-centric healthcare. Front Data Sci. 2023;5:1146023. doi:3389/fdata.2023.1146023.
  8. Harrell DT, Usman M, Hanson L, Abdul-Moheeth M, Desai I, Shriram J, et al. Technical design and development of a self-sovereign identity management platform for patient-centric healthcare using blockchain technology. Blockchain Healthc Today. 2022;5:196. doi:30953/bhty.v5.196.
  9. Lee S, Kim J, Kwon Y, Kim T, Cho S. Privacy preservation in patient information exchange systems based on blockchain: system design study. J Med Internet Res. 2022;24(2):e29108. doi:2196/29108.
  10. Khan A, Wagan AA, Laghari AA, Gilal AR, Aziz IA, Talpur BA. BIoMT: a state-of-the-art consortium serverless network architecture for healthcare system using blockchain smart contracts. IEEE Access. 2022;10:3194195. doi:1109/ACCESS.2022.3194195.
  11. Abdul-Moheeth M, Usman M, Harrell DT, Khurshid A. Improving transitions of care: designing a blockchain application for patient identity management. Blockchain Healthc Today. 2022;5:200. doi:30953/bhty.v5.200.
  12. Dammak B, Turki M, Cheikhrouhou S, Baklouti M, Mars R, Dhahbi A. LoRaChainCare: an IoT architecture integrating blockchain and LoRa network for personal health care data monitoring. Sensors. 2022;22(4):1497. doi:3390/s22041497.
  13. Fang HSA. Commercially successful blockchain healthcare projects: a scoping review. Blockchain Healthc Today. 2021;4:166. doi:30953/bhty.v4.166.
  14. Yeung K. The health care sector’s experience of blockchain: a cross-disciplinary investigation of its real transformative potential. J Med Internet Res. 2021;23(6):e24109. doi:2196/24109.
  15. Antwi M, Adnane A, Ahmad F, Hussain R, Rehman MH, Kerrache CA. The case of Hyperledger Fabric as a blockchain solution for healthcare applications. Blockchain Res Appl. 2021;1:100012. doi:1016/j.bcra.2021.100012.
  16. Kuo TT, Bath T, Ma S, Pattengale N, Yang M, Cao Y, et al. Benchmarking blockchain-based gene-drug interaction data sharing methods: a case study from the iDASH 2019 secure genome analysis competition blockchain track. Int J Med Inform. 2021;148:104559. doi:1016/j.ijmedinf.2021.104559.
  17. Javed IT, Alharbi F, Bellaj B, Margaria T, Crespi N, Qureshi KN. Health-ID: a blockchain-based decentralized identity management for remote healthcare. Healthcare. 2021;9(6):712. doi:3390/healthcare9060712.
  18. Zaabar B, Cheikhrouhou O, Jamil F, Ammi M, Abid M. HealthBlock: a secure blockchain-based healthcare data management system. Comput Netw. 2021;190:108500. doi:1016/j.comnet.2021.108500.
  19. Dedeturk BA, Soran A, Bakir-Gungor B. Blockchain for genomics and healthcare: a literature review, current status, classification and open issues. PeerJ. 2021;9:e12130. doi:7717/peerj.12130.
  20. Dubovitskaya A, Baig F, Xu Z, Shukla R, Zambani PS, Swaminathan A, et al. ACTION-EHR: patient-centric blockchain-based electronic health record data management for cancer care. J Med Internet Res. 2020;22(9):e13598. doi:2196/13598.
  21. Jamil F, Ahmad S, Iqbal N, Kim DH. Towards a remote monitoring of patient vital signs based on IoT-based blockchain integrity management platforms in smart hospitals. Sensors. 2020;20(8):2195. doi:3390/s20082195.
  22. Glicksberg BS, Burns S, Currie R, Griffin A, Wang ZJ, Haussler D, et al. Blockchain-authenticated sharing of genomic and clinical outcomes data of patients with cancer: a prospective cohort study. J Med Internet Res. 2020;22(3):e16810. doi:2196/16810.
  23. Justinia T. Blockchain technologies: opportunities for solving real-world problems in healthcare and biomedical sciences. Ann Med. 2019;27(4):284-291. doi:5455/aim.2019.27.284-291.
  24. Dimitrov DV. Blockchain applications for healthcare data management. Healthc Inform Res. 2019;25(1):51-57. doi:4258/hir.2019.25.1.51.
  25. Hylock RH, Zeng X. A blockchain framework for patient-centered health records and exchange (HealthChain): evaluation and proof-of-concept study. J Med Internet Res. 2019;21(7):e13592. doi:2196/13592.
  26. Jin XL, Zhang M, Zhou ZY, Yu XY. Application of a blockchain platform to manage and secure personal genomic data: a case study of LifeCODE.ai in China. J Med Internet Res. 2019;21(7):e13587. doi:2196/13587.
  27. Grishin D, Obbad K, Estep P, Quinn K, Zaranek SW, Zaranek AW, et al. Accelerating genomic data generation and facilitating genomic data access using decentralization, privacy-preserving technologies and equitablecompensation. Blockchain Healthc Today. 2018;1:34. doi:30953/bhty.v1.34.
  28. Zhang P, White J, Schmidt DC, Lenz G, Rosenbloom TS. FHIRChain: applying blockchain to securely and scalably share clinical data. Comput Struct Biotechnol J. 2018;16:267-277. doi:1016/j.csbj.2018.07.004.
  29. Azaria A, Ekblaw A, Vieira T, Lippman A. MedRec: using blockchain for medical data access and permission management. Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Open and Big Data. 2016:25-30. doi:1109/OBD.2016.11.
  30. Yue X, Wang H, Jin D, Li M, Jiang W. Healthcare data gateways: Found healthcare intelligence on blockchain with novel privacy risk control. J Med Internet Res. 2016;18(1):e32. doi:1007/s10916-016-0574-6.

In addition, the Government Blockchain Association (GBA) has a Web3 Solutions Registry with numerous scaled healthcare solutions at https://gbaglobal.org/web3-solutions/#healthcare.

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