Health information technology and information security specialists are hearing a lot about blockchain these days. “It’s the answer to interoperability.” And “the technology can solve healthcare’s looming security problems.”
But what the heck is blockchain, anyway?
The so-called digital ledger technology was developed in 2008 by Satoshi Nakamoto, a possibly pseudonymous person (or perhaps multiple people) who designed it as the underpinning for the exchange of the digital cryptocurrency known as Bitcoin.
