Exploring Research in Blockchain for Healthcare and a Roadmap for the Future

Healthcare is a data-intensive domain, once a considerable volume of data is daily to monitoring patients, managing clinical research, producing medical records, and processing medical insurance claims. While the focus of applications of blockchain in practice has been to build distributed ledgers i...

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Veröffentlicht in:IEEE transactions on emerging topics in computing Jg. 9; H. 4; S. 1835 - 1852
Hauptverfasser: Kassab, Mohamad, DeFranco, Joanna, Malas, Tarek, Laplante, Phillip, Destefanis, Giuseppe, Neto, Valdemar Vicente Graciano
Format: Journal Article
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: New York IEEE 01.10.2021
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Schlagworte:
Bitcoin
Blockchain
Cryptography
Distributed ledger
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Health care
healthcare
hyperledger
Insurance
Literature reviews
Medical research
Medical services
medicine
New technology
Patients
Peer-to-peer computing
Physicians
Supply chains
Symbiosis
ISSN:2168-6750, 2168-6750
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Zusammenfassung:Healthcare is a data-intensive domain, once a considerable volume of data is daily to monitoring patients, managing clinical research, producing medical records, and processing medical insurance claims. While the focus of applications of blockchain in practice has been to build distributed ledgers involving virtual tokens, the impetus of this emerging technology has now extended to the medical domain. With the increased popularity, it is crucial to study how this technology accompanied with a system for smart contracts can support and challenge the healthcare domain for all interrelated actors (patients, physicians, insurance companies, regulators) and involved assets (e.g., patients' data, physician's data, equipment's and drug's supply chain, etc.). The contributions of this paper are the following: (i) report the results of a systematic literature review conducted to identify, extract, evaluate and synthesize the studies on the symbiosis of blockchain in healthcare; (ii) summarize and categorize existing benefits/challenges on incorporating blockchain in healthcare domain; (iii) provide a framework that will facilitate new research activities; and (iv) establish the state of evidence with in-depth assessment.
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ISSN:2168-6750
2168-6750
DOI:10.1109/TETC.2019.2936881