Applications of Blockchain Technology in Medicine and Healthcare: Challenges and Future Perspectives
Abstrak
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.
Topik & Kata Kunci
Penulis (6)
Asad Ali Siyal
Aisha Zahid Junejo
Muhammad Zawish
Kainat Ahmed
Aiman Khalil
G. Soursou
Akses Cepat
- Tahun Terbit
- 2019
- Bahasa
- en
- Total Sitasi
- 398×
- Sumber Database
- Semantic Scholar
- DOI
- 10.3390/cryptography3010003
- Akses
- Open Access ✓