Post date: May 31, 2018 2:52:27 PM
Familiar with the Gartner hype cycle? Plot expectations for a technology over time and you go from innovation trigger to the peak of inflated expectations before crashing to the trough of disillusionment. Only then do you go up the slope of enlightenment and reach the plateau of productivity. Gartner's 2017 Hype Cycle for Healthcare Providers put blockchain as rising to the peak. Less than a year later Lloyd Price put blockchain on the path of enlightenment. Yet Gartner says less than one percent of CIOs indicate any kind of blockchain adoption.
I am reminded of the work I've done in data storage grids - promising technology that solved a lot of real world problems but unable to overcome operational challenges. Watch this space as I post some thoughts on blockchain.
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“Socio-Technical Considerations in Administrating the Data Grid” (Section 21.7.2) in PACS and Imaging Informatics: Basic Principles & Applications: 2ndedition, Wiley Blackwell (2010) authored by H.K. Huang, pp. 674-675