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We previously looked at how blockchains can help healthcare in an ideal world. However, healthcare blockchain use poses many challenges in the real world, which are discussed here.

Part 1 describes the potential benefits of blockchains in healthcare - such as data sharing for emergency medical use. Part 2 will talk about real world challenges.

Patient privacy and use of medical data for research are two sides of the same coin. Thoughts on the need for better privacy protections while accelerating medical research.

Part 1 starts with an overview of consistent extraction and representation of 'meaning' in medical records , aka 'semantic normalization'