Role of Blockchain in the Healthcare Sector: Challenges, Opportunities and Its Uses in Covid-19 Pandemic
- Title
- Role of Blockchain in the Healthcare Sector: Challenges, Opportunities and Its Uses in Covid-19 Pandemic
- Creator
- Arumugam S.K.; Sharma A.M.
- Description
- As the world grapples with the Covid-19 pandemic and major populations are getting vaccinated, increasing realisation processes healthcare industry needs to be augmented. It includes managing supply chains, healthcare records, and patient care. With a scarcity of time and resources, adaptation of blockchain technology will help mitigate the pressures on existing infrastructure. A blockchain distributed ledger helps to exchange health information securely without complex intermediation of trust with secure access. The organisations and persons in the blockchain network can verify and authorise the data, thus protecting patient identity, privacy, medical information system, and reducing transaction costs. The paper examines managing and protecting electronic medical records and personal health records data using blockchain. It also analyses issues in healthcare, blockchain implementation, and its uses in the Covid-19 pandemic. 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
- Source
- Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, Vol-420 LNNS, pp. 657-666.
- Date
- 2022-01-01
- Publisher
- Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
- Subject
- Blockchain; Covid-19; Healthcare; Hospital; Medical; Pandemic; Security; Technology
- Coverage
- Arumugam S.K., Department of Professional Studies, Christ University, Bangalore, India; Sharma A.M., Department of Professional Studies, Christ University, Bangalore, India
- Rights
- Restricted Access
- Relation
- ISSN: 23673370; ISBN: 978-303096304-0
- Format
- Online
- Language
- English
- Type
- Conference paper
Collection
Citation
Arumugam S.K.; Sharma A.M., “Role of Blockchain in the Healthcare Sector: Challenges, Opportunities and Its Uses in Covid-19 Pandemic,” CHRIST (Deemed To Be University) Institutional Repository, accessed February 25, 2025, https://archives.christuniversity.in/items/show/20422.