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Schöner M | Kourouklis D | Sandner P | Ilarraza E | Förster J | Wei T
Blockchain Technology in the Pharmaceutical Industry / Schöner et al. • Blockchain Technology · Schöner M, Kourouklis D, Sandner P, Ilarraza E, Förster J, Wei T ·
1Frankfurt School of Finance and Management, Frankfurt/Main und Ubiot SpA, Mannheim und University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg und University Medical Centre Mannheim, Mannheim
When looking at the universe of digital transformation, blockchain is just one piece of the puzzle among many other disruptive technologies, such as Cloud technology, Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning. But what is behind the concept of blockchain? Blockchain is a decentralized database solution which is shared and maintained by many parties. Each record on the blockchain is time-stamped and securely linked to previous records on the blockchain via a hash-function. Records can only be added to the blockchain but can never be deleted. Data on the blockchain is encrypted and can only be decrypted using a public and private ...