On Health
Maged N. Kamel Boulos
Maged N. Kamel Boulos has >27 years of clinical and informatics experience, working as Medical Doctor (Dermatologist), Researcher, then Lecturer, then Associate Professor, then Professor of Health Informatics (Digital Health) at City, University of London, and the Universities of Bath, Plymouth, and UHI (Scotland), UK. Maged is Senior Member of IEEE, and has >150 publications, with a Google Scholar h-index of 36. He was twice appointed as WHO/Europe Expert Adviser, and is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of BMC's International Journal of Health Geographics.
Quo vadis blockchain in health and healthcare?
You may be familiar with blockchain as the technology powering bitcoin cryptocurrency. But blockchain's potential goes far beyond this, with healthcare being just one of the industries set to be revolutionized. In an editorial published today in the International Journal of Health Geographics, Maged N. Kamel Boulos and colleagues discuss how we could soon see blockchain technology securing patient and provider identities, managing medical supply lines, enabling public and open geo-tagged data and much more.
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