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Applicability of Blockchain-Based Implementation for Risk Management in Healthcare Projects
Hospitals provide diverse tasks essential for the delivery of patient care and are comprised of many functional units. This makes healthcare projects in construction highly complex among other types of building projects due to the specific regulations, multiple functions it must provide, complicated...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9907422/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36779025 http://dx.doi.org/10.30953/bhty.v5.191 |
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description | Hospitals provide diverse tasks essential for the delivery of patient care and are comprised of many functional units. This makes healthcare projects in construction highly complex among other types of building projects due to the specific regulations, multiple functions it must provide, complicated mechanical and electrical systems, and so on. This complexity embodies potential risk events during its construction, which not only influences the completion of the project but can impact the patients’ safety and health conditions even after the project is finished. To prevent such outcomes, risk management is a crucial process that can identify, evaluate, and properly mitigate risks along the project lifecycle. A key aspect of risk management is that it requires the interaction and contribution from multiple stakeholders of the project. Various frameworks and tools that enable collaborative management of risks among multiple stakeholders have been developed in the past. However, the developed frameworks are not suitable in the sense that it does not protect the confidentiality of individual inputs from the stakeholders. Moreover, these frameworks are centralized systems, which can bring issues related to the security and transparency of the information that is being stored. Blockchain technology is an emergent distributed ledger technology (DLT) that can provide solutions to the listed problems found in centralized systems. It is a novel system that records information on a decentralized, distributed ledger, where transactions are constantly duplicated and updated. This study explores the applicability of blockchain technology for healthcare risk management. The key functional elements of blockchain that can resolve the challenges faced by prior risk management frameworks have been identified and discussed. Based on the discussions, a conceptual information management model for managing healthcare project risks on a blockchain has been conceived. The development of the initial prototype has been explained. The research study illustrates the process, benefits, and limitations of adopting the blockchain technology for collaborative risk management in healthcare projects. |
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spelling | pubmed-99074222023-02-10 Applicability of Blockchain-Based Implementation for Risk Management in Healthcare Projects Chung, In Bae Caldas, Carlos Blockchain Healthc Today Original Research Hospitals provide diverse tasks essential for the delivery of patient care and are comprised of many functional units. This makes healthcare projects in construction highly complex among other types of building projects due to the specific regulations, multiple functions it must provide, complicated mechanical and electrical systems, and so on. This complexity embodies potential risk events during its construction, which not only influences the completion of the project but can impact the patients’ safety and health conditions even after the project is finished. To prevent such outcomes, risk management is a crucial process that can identify, evaluate, and properly mitigate risks along the project lifecycle. A key aspect of risk management is that it requires the interaction and contribution from multiple stakeholders of the project. Various frameworks and tools that enable collaborative management of risks among multiple stakeholders have been developed in the past. However, the developed frameworks are not suitable in the sense that it does not protect the confidentiality of individual inputs from the stakeholders. Moreover, these frameworks are centralized systems, which can bring issues related to the security and transparency of the information that is being stored. Blockchain technology is an emergent distributed ledger technology (DLT) that can provide solutions to the listed problems found in centralized systems. It is a novel system that records information on a decentralized, distributed ledger, where transactions are constantly duplicated and updated. This study explores the applicability of blockchain technology for healthcare risk management. The key functional elements of blockchain that can resolve the challenges faced by prior risk management frameworks have been identified and discussed. Based on the discussions, a conceptual information management model for managing healthcare project risks on a blockchain has been conceived. The development of the initial prototype has been explained. The research study illustrates the process, benefits, and limitations of adopting the blockchain technology for collaborative risk management in healthcare projects. Partners in Digital Health 2022-03-14 /pmc/articles/PMC9907422/ /pubmed/36779025 http://dx.doi.org/10.30953/bhty.v5.191 Text en © 2022 The Authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, allowing third parties to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format and to remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially, provided the original work is properly cited and states its license. |
spellingShingle | Original Research Chung, In Bae Caldas, Carlos Applicability of Blockchain-Based Implementation for Risk Management in Healthcare Projects |
title | Applicability of Blockchain-Based Implementation for Risk Management in Healthcare Projects |
title_full | Applicability of Blockchain-Based Implementation for Risk Management in Healthcare Projects |
title_fullStr | Applicability of Blockchain-Based Implementation for Risk Management in Healthcare Projects |
title_full_unstemmed | Applicability of Blockchain-Based Implementation for Risk Management in Healthcare Projects |
title_short | Applicability of Blockchain-Based Implementation for Risk Management in Healthcare Projects |
title_sort | applicability of blockchain-based implementation for risk management in healthcare projects |
topic | Original Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9907422/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36779025 http://dx.doi.org/10.30953/bhty.v5.191 |
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