Applications of blockchain technology in medicine and healthcare: challenges and future perspectives
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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.
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- Authors
- Siyal, A. A., Junejo, A. Z., Zawish, M., Ahmed, K., Khalil, A., & Soursou, G.
- Affiliations
- Mehran University of Engineering and Technology (PK)
- Trinity College Dublin (IE)
- University of Crete (GR)
- Corresponding author
- Siyal, Asad Ali
- Venue
- Cryptography
- Publisher
- MDPI AG
- Published
- 2019-01-02
- Volume
- 3
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 3
- ISSN
- 2410-387X (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2907251489
- Cited by
- 531
- References
- 40
- Citations by year
- 2026: 25 · 2025: 61 · 2024: 80 · 2023: 104 · 2022: 117 · 2021: 84 · 2020: 45 · 2019: 14 · 2018: 1
- FWCI
- 80.95
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- dx.doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Cryptography (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Blockchain Technology Applications and Security
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Blockchain Technology in Education and Learning
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › Health Information Management › Electronic Health Records Systems
- Keywords
- blockchain, health care, health data management, secure data sharing, clinical data interoperability, personalized healthcare, healthcare data security, blockchain adoption barriers
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