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biht-28	Gagnon, Michael L; Stephen, Grant	A Pragmatic Solution to a Major Interoperability Problem: Using Blockchain for the Nationwide Patient Index	2018	9	.pdf	application/pdf	3740	216	52	ssociating the health-related medical records and patient transactions with their numerous “identities” as they interact with different healthcare providers, payers, pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), and other entities is a complicated problem.1,2 Failure to efficiently make such associations impacts care and is responsible for considerable wasted time and resources across the U.S. A blockchain-based approach could be used to index patient identities and locations of their health records in Health Information Exchanges (HIE) and other networks of patient data across the country. THE PROBLEM OF PATIENT IDENTITY How to collect patient data and make it accessible to any organization that performs a service for that patient is a long-standing challenge.	cache/biht-28.pdf	txt/biht-28.txt