Impact of Blockchain Technology in the Healthcare Systems
- Title
- Impact of Blockchain Technology in the Healthcare Systems
- Creator
- Anand G.; Prajeeth A.; Gautam B.; Rahul; Monika
- Description
- The healthcare industry is one of the most important industries in the world which is in dire need of a restructuring process because of its poor and outdated techniques of data management. Healthcare system has adopted a centralized environment and deals with a lot of intermediaries which makes it prone to issues of single point of failure, lack of traceability of transactions, and privacy issues such as data leakage. Blockchain is a relatively new technology which is able to tackle the obsolete methods and practices existing in the healthcare industry. In this chapter, we analyzed the applications of blockchains in the healthcare industry which can solve the issues prevalent in the healthcare industry. The aim of this chapter is to reveal the potential benefits that comes from using blockchain technology in the healthcare industry and identify the various challenges that this technology has. 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.
- Source
- Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies, Vol-101, pp. 709-729.
- Date
- 2022-01-01
- Publisher
- Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
- Subject
- Blockchain; Decentralization; Health care; Scalability; Security
- Coverage
- Anand G., Department of Computational Sciences, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bangalore, India; Prajeeth A., Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Delhi Technological University, Delhi, 110042, India; Gautam B., Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Delhi Technological University, Delhi, 110042, India; Rahul, Department of Software Engineering, Delhi Technological University, Delhi, 110042, India; Monika, Department of Computer Science, Shaheed Rajguru College of Applied Sciences for Women, University of Delhi, Delhi, 110096, India
- Rights
- Restricted Access
- Relation
- ISSN: 23674512
- Format
- Online
- Language
- English
- Type
- Book chapter
Collection
Citation
Anand G.; Prajeeth A.; Gautam B.; Rahul; Monika, “Impact of Blockchain Technology in the Healthcare Systems,” CHRIST (Deemed To Be University) Institutional Repository, accessed February 23, 2025, https://archives.christuniversity.in/items/show/18686.