Exploring applications of blockchain in healthcare: road map and future directions

Frontiers in Public Health

Public Health

Yaroslav Hnatiuk¹  Olena Vovk¹  M. A. Jabbar²  Yuvraj Singh³  Shishir Kumar Shandilya³ 

[1] Department of Artificial Intelligence Systems, Lviv Polytechnic National University, Lviv, Oblast, Ukraine;Department of Computer Science and Engineering (AI&ML), Vardhaman College of Engineering, Hyderabad, Telangana, India;School of Computing Science and Engineering, VIT Bhopal University, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India;

关键词: blockchain;    distributed public ledger;    healthcare;    electronic health record;    personal health record;    medical health insurance;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpubh.2023.1229386

 received in 2023-05-26, accepted in 2023-08-23,  发布年份 2023

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Blockchain technology includes numerous elements such as distributed ledgers, decentralization, authenticity, privacy, and immutability. It has progressed past the hype to find actual use cases in industries like healthcare. Blockchain is an emerging area that relies on a consensus algorithm and the idea of a digitally distributed ledger to eliminate any intermediary risks. By enabling them to trace data provenance and any changes made, blockchain technology can enable different healthcare stakeholders to share access to their networks without violating data security and integrity. The healthcare industry faces challenges like fragmented data, security and privacy concerns, and interoperability issues. Blockchain technology offers potential solutions by ensuring secure, tamper-proof storage across multiple network nodes, improving interoperability and patient privacy. Encrypting patient data further enhances security and reduces unauthorized access concerns. Blockchain technology, deployed over the Internet, can potentially use the current healthcare data by using a patient-centric approach and removing the intermediaries. This paper discusses the effective utilization of blockchain technology in the healthcare industry. In contrast to other applications, the exoteric evaluation in this paper shows that the innovative technology called blockchain technology has a major role to play in the existing and future applications of the healthcare industry and has significant benefits.

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