Tracking of Clinical Documentation Based on the Blockchain Technology—A Polish Case Study

Łukasz Wyciślik and Elżbieta Marcinkowska
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Łukasz Wyciślik: Department of Applied Informatics, Faculty of Automatic Control, Electronics and Computer Science, Silesian University of Technology, 44-100 Gliwice, Poland
Elżbieta Marcinkowska: Department of Economics, Finance and Environmental Management, Faculty of Management, AGH University of Science and Technology, 30-067 Cracow, Poland

Sustainability, 2020, vol. 12, issue 22, 1-14

Abstract: The article presents the concept of application DLT (distributed ledger technologies) for building the electronic clinical documentation tracking system. After a short introduction to block chain issues, and discussion about the attempts of its application on various fields of everyday human life, including healthcare, basic requirements for tracking of clinical documentation system are presented, followed by the proposition of its architecture leveraging the distributed ledger technologies. The paper is concluded with a discussion about the possibilities of running such a system, regarding constraints coming from local legal regulations and general data protection regulation (GDPR), but also economic and social conditions, including ecological ones, which are part of the sustainable development trend.

Keywords: block chain; clinical documentation; distributed ledger technology; Poland; sustainability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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