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2287

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Blockchain is touted as an ideal basis for many systems that facilitate management and exchange of health information. However, much is unknown about patient perceptions of blockchain and its use in the healthcare context. This paper reports on the initial findings of a hermeneutic literature review that explores factors affecting patient acceptance of blockchain for managing personal health information. Privacy emerges from this literature as a construct of interest with inconsistent effects on patient perceptions of blockchain. A conceptual framework grounded in Communication Privacy Management (CPM) theory is thus proposed to explain how patients develop privacy rules to govern their personal health information. This framework provides a preliminary understanding of privacy-related factors that may affect patient acceptance of blockchain. Opportunities to expand the findings of this ongoing literature review and further explore attributes of blockchain that affect patients’ privacy rules are discussed.

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Dec 12th, 12:00 AM

Patient Acceptance of Blockchain for Management of Health Information

Blockchain is touted as an ideal basis for many systems that facilitate management and exchange of health information. However, much is unknown about patient perceptions of blockchain and its use in the healthcare context. This paper reports on the initial findings of a hermeneutic literature review that explores factors affecting patient acceptance of blockchain for managing personal health information. Privacy emerges from this literature as a construct of interest with inconsistent effects on patient perceptions of blockchain. A conceptual framework grounded in Communication Privacy Management (CPM) theory is thus proposed to explain how patients develop privacy rules to govern their personal health information. This framework provides a preliminary understanding of privacy-related factors that may affect patient acceptance of blockchain. Opportunities to expand the findings of this ongoing literature review and further explore attributes of blockchain that affect patients’ privacy rules are discussed.

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