id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
biht-200	Abdul-Moheeth, Mustafa; Usman, Muhammad; Harrell, Daniel Toshio; Khurshid, Anjum	Improving Transitions of Care: Designing a Blockchain Application for Patient Identity Management	2022	13	.pdf	application/pdf	8728	435	45	In fact, this siloing of healthcare information likely contributes to inaccurate or incomplete transitions of care, which ultimately may re- sult in adverse patient outcomes, especially in the setting of hospital discharges where accepting providers may be seeing complex patients for the first time.2 Although the 21st Century Cures Act (Cures Act) that was signed into law in 2016 made it mandatory for the federal government to aid in making the transfer of patient data faster and more efficient, it lacked provisions to mandate interopera- bility, leading to the current manifestation of EMRs that lack interoperability, often by design.3 In the complex healthcare ecosystem that exists today, transitions of patient care are a critical leverage point from which larger changes can be enacted if the structure of in- formation flow is fundamentally changed from the status quo. In addition to healthcare data being shared among the participating clinical sites, all partici- pants successfully enrolled in research studies and were able to transfer their information seamlessly.	cache/biht-200.pdf	txt/biht-200.txt