TY - JOUR
T1 - Applications of blockchain technology in medicine and healthcare
T2 - Challenges and future perspectives
AU - Siyal, Asad Ali
AU - Junejo, Aisha Zahid
AU - Zawish, Muhammad
AU - Ahmed, Kainat
AU - Khalil, Aiman
AU - Soursou, Georgia
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
PY - 2019/3
Y1 - 2019/3
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Blockchain
KW - Data-sharing
KW - Distributed ledger technology
KW - Distributed systems
KW - Health information exchange, security, interoperability
KW - Healthcare, biomedical
KW - Medicine
KW - Privacy
KW - Transparency
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/cryptography3010003
U2 - 10.3390/cryptography3010003
DO - 10.3390/cryptography3010003
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85067212330
VL - 3
SP - 1
EP - 16
JO - Cryptography
JF - Cryptography
SN - 2410-387X
IS - 1
M1 - 3
ER -