TY - JOUR AU - Anselmo, Alessandro AU - Materazzo, Marco AU - Di Lorenzo, Nicola AU - Sensi, Bruno AU - Riccetti, Camilla AU - Lonardo, Maria Teresa AU - Pellicciaro, Marco AU - D’Amico, Francesco AU - Siragusa, Leandro AU - Tisone, Giuseppe PY - 2023 M3 - Review TI - Implementation of Blockchain Technology Could Increase Equity and Transparency in Organ Transplantation: A Narrative Review of an Emergent Tool JO - Transplant International UR - https://www.frontierspartnerships.org/articles/10.3389/ti.2023.10800 VL - 36 SN - 1432-2277 N2 - In the last few years, innovative technology and health care digitalization played a major role in all medical fields and a great effort worldwide to manage this large amount of data, in terms of security and digital privacy has been made by different national health systems. Blockchain technology, a peer-to-peer distributed database without centralized authority, initially applied to Bitcoin protocol, soon gained popularity, thanks to its distributed immutable nature in several non-medical fields. Therefore, the aim of the present review (PROSPERO N° CRD42022316661) is to establish a putative future role of blockchain and distribution ledger technology (DLT) in the organ transplantation field and its role to overcome inequalities. Preoperative assessment of the deceased donor, supranational crossover programs with the international waitlist databases, and reduction of black-market donations and counterfeit drugs are some of the possible applications of DLT, thanks to its distributed, efficient, secure, trackable, and immutable nature to reduce inequalities and discrimination. ER -