Abstract
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.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Article number | 3 |
| Pages (from-to) | 1-16 |
| Number of pages | 16 |
| Journal | Cryptography |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Mar 2019 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Blockchain
- Data-sharing
- Distributed ledger technology
- Distributed systems
- Health information exchange, security, interoperability
- Healthcare, biomedical
- Medicine
- Privacy
- Transparency
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