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Blockchain-Enabled Health Information Exchange Efficiency Across South Korean Hospital Networks: A Stochastic Frontier Analysis with Bayesian Model Averaging

2026-02-26 health informatics Title + abstract only
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BackgroundSouth Koreas healthcare system, while technologically advanced, faces persistent inefficiencies in health information exchange (HIE) across its fragmented hospital network. Blockchain technology has been proposed as a decentralised infrastructure for secure, interoperable health data sharing, yet empirical evidence quantifying the efficiency gains attributable to blockchain-based HIE systems at the hospital network level remains absent. Traditional performance metrics fail to distingui...

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