Abstract
Blockchain has often been mentioned in recent years as being a promising innovation for the healthcare sector in that it can ensure the secure exchange and traceability of information while respecting the regulatory framework for the confidentiality and portability of healthcare data. However, concrete cases remain very rare in the literature, and we investigate relevant use cases applying blockchain in healthcare. This chapter shows how we design a blockchain-based allergy card to solve real-life issues that is register, share and trace information about drug allergies. Therefore, we iteratively use action design research to determine the needs, design solution, develop the application and evaluate outcomes by involving stakeholders in the construction and evaluation.
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Appendix. Semi-Directive Interview
Appendix. Semi-Directive Interview
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Context
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What do you know about allergy card?
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What do know about applications in healthcare? Have you ever used them? What did you think?
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What do you think of the principle and the usefulness of Digital allergy documentation?
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Ergonomics
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What do you think about the interfaces of the application?
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Is it simple or are there any difficulties in use? (intuitive use?).
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Content
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Are the fields to be filled understandable?
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Are the different textual contents understandable
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Would you like to add or remove any information?
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Usage
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Would you like to use it? Why? How?
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Do you have anything to add?
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Nguewo Ngassam, R.G., Ologeanu-Taddei, R., Lartigau, J., Bourdon, I. (2020). A Use Case of Blockchain in Healthcare: Allergy Card. In: Treiblmaier, H., Clohessy, T. (eds) Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology Use Cases. Progress in IS. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44337-5_4
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