Development and Evaluation of a Smart Contract-Enabled Blockchain System for Home Care Service Innovation: Mixed Methods Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In the home care industry, the assignment and tracking of care services are controlled by care centers that are centralized in nature and prone to inefficient information transmission. A lack of trust among the involved parties, information opaqueness, and large manual manipulation result in lower process efficiency.

Objective

This study aimed to explore and demonstrate the application of blockchain and smart contract technologies to innovate/renovate home care services for harvesting the desired blockchain benefits of process transparency, traceability, and interoperability.

Methods

An object-oriented analysis/design combined with a unified modeling language tool was used to construct the architecture of the proposed home care service system. System feasib

SUBMITTER: Chang SE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7420632 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature