Emerging Trends in Engineering and Management
The Impact of Blockchain Technology in Healthcare
Authors: Naman . and Kamal Nain Sharma
Publishing Date: 04-02-2023
ISBN: 978-81-955020-3-5
Abstract
Nowadays, the healthcare systems are facing various problems in the fields of information security, data immutability, data sharing and management, trust, privacy of the patients and transparency. The management of data by the patients and healthcare professionals is complicated as the existing healthcare systems are centralized. Blockchain technology can digitalize and change the way data is managed with its decentralized and peer to peer network approach. In this way, the healthcare systems can benefit a lot from Blockchain technology. This paper helps to get an improved review of the recent works done on the Healthcare applications based on Blockchain.
Keywords
Healthcare, Blockchain technology, Data management, Healthcare data, Data sharing, privacy, security and transparency.
Cite as
Naman . and Kamal Nain Sharma, "The Impact of Blockchain Technology in Healthcare", In: Vikram Dhiman and Pooja Dhand (eds), Emerging Trends in Engineering and Management, SCRS, India, 2023, pp. 65-74. https://doi.org/10.56155/978-81-955020-3-5-08