Applications of Blockchain Technology in Medicine and Healthcare: Challenges and Future Perspectives
By Asad Ali Siyal, Aisha Zahid Junejo, Muhammad Zawish, Kainat Ahmed, Aiman Khalil, Georgia Soursou. Cryptogr., 2019
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Blockchain technology has gained considerable attention, with an escalating interest in a plethora of numerous applications, ranging from data management, financial services, cyber security, IoT, and food science to healthcare industry and brain research. There has been a remarkable interest witnessed in utilizing applications of blockchain for the delivery of safe and secure healthcare data management. Also, blockchain is reforming the traditional healthcare practices to a more reliable means, in terms of effective diagnosis and treatment through safe and secure data sharing. In the future, blockchain could be a technology that may potentially help in personalized, authentic, and secure healthcare by merging the entire real-time clinical data of a patient’s health and presenting it in an up-to-date secure healthcare setup. In this paper, we review both the existing and latest developments in the field of healthcare by implementing blockchain as a model. We also discuss the applications of blockchain, along with the challenges faced and future perspectives.
Subfields: Computer Networks and Communications, Information Systems
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- A Blockchain-Based Smart Contract System for Healthcare Management (2020, background): “Siyal et al. [47] discussed how blockchain technology and smart contracts are beneficial for the healthcare sector by streamlining the overall process.”
- Using Blockchain for Electronic Health Records (2019, neutral): “As it would require certified standards from international authorities that overlook the standardization process of any technology [19].”
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