Blockchain Applications in Healthcare : Innovations and Practices.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Choudhury, Tanupriya.

Contributor:

Khanna, Abhirup.

Chatterjee, Prasenjit.

Um, Jung-Sup.

Bhattacharya, Abhishek.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Blockchains (Databases).

Health--Data processing.

Health.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (254 pages)

Edition:

1st edition.

Place of Publication:

Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2023.

Summary:

This book explores the applications and benefits of blockchain technology in the healthcare sector. It provides a comprehensive overview of blockchain as a distributed database, its architecture, and its development as a state-of-the-art solution for healthcare challenges. The book discusses the role of smart contracts in healthcare, including their applications in health insurance, telemedicine, and patient records. It also examines the challenges and open issues related to blockchain technology, such as privacy, legal concerns, and contract vulnerabilities. The authors aim to provide insights into the growing anticipation of blockchain in healthcare and future trends. This book is intended for professionals, researchers, and students interested in the intersection of technology and healthcare. Generated by AI.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1. Framework for Blockchain in Healthcare

1.1. Concept of Blockchain

1.2. Blockchain as distributed database

1.3. Architecture of Blockchain in healthcare

1.4. Development of Blockchain: A state of art

1.5. Information distribution in Blockchain

1.6. The growing anticipation of Blockchain

1.6.1. Challenges faced by Blockchain

1.7. The benefits of Blockchain in healthcare

1.8. Open issues related to Blockchain

1.9. Future trends of Blockchain

1.10. References

Chapter 2. Role of Smart Contracts in Blockchain

2.1. Introduction to Blockchain

2.1.1. Types of Blockchain

2.1.2. Characteristics of Blockchain

2.2. Smart contracts

2.2.1. Operating mechanism of smart contracts

2.2.2. Applications of smart contracts

2.2.3. Programming languages and platforms

2.3. Quantitative analysis

2.3.1. Results

2.4. Role of smart contracts in healthcare

2.4.1. Health Insurance

2.4.2. Healthcare

2.4.3. Telemedicine

2.5. Example of smart contracts

2.5.1. Simple open auction

2.5.2. Voting

2.5.3. Patient record

2.6. Challenges related to smart contracts

2.6.1. Contract vulnerabilities

2.6.2. Privacy and legal issues

2.6.3. Immutability issue

2.7. Conclusion

2.8. References

Chapter 3. Blockchain-based Platforms for the Healthcare Industry

3.1. Introduction

3.2. Literature review

3.3. Blockchain technology

3.3.1. Uses of Blockchain in the healthcare sector

3.4. Blockchain applications that can be useful for treating the medical sector problems

3.4.1. Smart contracts

3.4.2. Fraud detection

3.4.3. Identity verification

3.5. Examples of healthcare platforms using Blockchain

3.5.1. Data sharing using Gem Health Network

3.5.2. MeDshare.

3.5.3. OmniPHR

3.6. Blockchain during the Covid-19 pandemic

3.7. Conclusion

3.8. References

Chapter 4. Analyzing and Modeling the Challenges Faced by the Healthcare Sector in the Adoption Process of Blockchain Technologies

4.1. Introduction

4.2. Literature review

4.2.1. Blockchain in healthcare

4.3. Challenges of Blockchain in healthcare

4.3.1. Technical challenges (TC)

4.3.2. Social challenges (SC)

4.3.3. Organizational challenges (OC)

4.4. Research methodology

4.5. Data analysis

4.6. Discussion

4.7. Conclusion

4.8. References

Chapter 5. Blockchain as an Effective Technology in Maintaining Electronic Health Record Systems

5.1. Introduction

5.2. Background concepts on Blockchain technology

5.2.1. Consensus algorithms

5.2.2. Types of Blockchain

5.2.3. Smart contracts

5.2.4. Features of Blockchain

5.2.5. Applications of Blockchain technology

5.3. Blockchain in healthcare

5.4. Electronic health records using Blockchain

5.5. Quantitative analysis

5.5.1. Results

5.6. Proposed framework for the EHRs using Blockchain

5.6.1. System workflow

5.7. Issues in Blockchain-based EHRs

5.8. Case studies

5.8.1. MedRec

5.8.2. AI-based solution for EHRs

5.8.3. Improving medical record keeping with Blockchain

5.9. Conclusion

5.10. References

Chapter 6. An Optimistic Approach to Share Private Health Records Using Blockchain Technology

6.1. Introduction

6.2. Related work

6.2.1. Process of storing larger healthcare data

6.3. Blockchain-based EHR system

6.3.1. Sharing of data

6.3.2. Interoperability

6.3.3. A distributed network

6.3.4. Shared ledger

6.3.5. Digital transactions

6.4. Blockchain in healthcare

6.4.1. On-chain storage

6.4.2. Off-chain storage

6.4.3. Trust issues in the context of health information exchange (HIE).

6.5. Conclusion and future scope

6.6. References

Chapter 7. Patient Data Privacy Using Blockchain

7.1. Introduction

7.2. Threat modeling - digitalization in the healthcare industry

7.2.1. Data flow diagram (DFD)

7.2.2. Threat analysis

7.3. Privacy versus security

7.3.1. Privacy in Blockchain

7.3.2. Process flow

7.4. Regulatory compliance requirements

7.4.1. HIPAA, HITRUST, HITECH and GDPR

7.4.2. Blockchain as a savior

7.5. Differential privacy

7.5.1. Local differential privacy versus global differential privacy

7.5.2. Quantification of privacy and mathematical form of differential privacy

7.5.3. Advantages of using differential privacy in Blockchain

7.6. Privacy by Design

7.7. Conclusion

7.8. References

Chapter 8. Decentralized Smart Healthcare Systems Using Blockchain and AI

8.1. Introduction to the healthcare system

8.1.1. Introduction to AI

8.1.2. Introduction to Blockchain

8.2. Use of AI in healthcare systems

8.3. Use of Blockchain in healthcare systems

8.4. History of medical care

8.4.1. Health claims

8.4.2. Interoperability

8.4.3. Exposure to healthcare

8.4.4. Supply chains

8.5. Literature review

8.6. Bringing intelligence to medical devices and machines

8.7. Using artificial intelligence to transform clinical decision-making in hospitals

8.7.1. Advantages of Blockchain in healthcare systems

8.8. Results of existing models

8.9. Conclusion

8.10. References

Chapter 9. Component-based Healthcare Software Application Using Blockchain

9.1. Introduction

9.2. Literature review

9.3. Software development models

9.3.1. Traditional software development methodologies

9.3.2. Modern software development methodologies

9.4. Proposed model

9.4.1. Component-based software development life-cycle.

9.4.2. Component development life-cycle

9.5. Comparison among different software development life-cycle models

9.6. Conclusion and future works

9.7. References

Chapter 10. The Role of Smart Contracts and Blockchain Technology in Healthcare and Other Use Cases

10.1. Introduction

10.1.1. Comparison between traditional contracts and smart contracts

10.2. Ethereum: Generation Two of Blockchain technology

10.2.1. History of Ethereum

10.3. Smart contracts

10.3.1. How smart contracts work

10.3.2. Benefits of smart contracts

10.3.3. Roles of smart contracts

10.4. Use of smart contracts in healthcare, patient monitoring, and other use cases

10.4.1. Transparency in supply chain

10.4.2. Electronic health records on the Blockchain

10.4.3. Use of smart contracts for insurance and billing in supply chain management

10.4.4. Verification of medical personnel's identity cards

10.4.5. IoT security for remote patient monitoring

10.5. Building smart contracts on the Ethereum Blockchain

10.5.1. Ethereum virtual machine (EVM)

10.5.2. Gas

10.5.3. Solidity

10.6. Real-time use cases of smart contracts

10.6.1. Smart contracts and insurance

10.6.2. Smart contracts in an electric vehicle

10.6.3. Smart contracts in the energy sector

10.6.4. Intellectual property rights

10.6.5. Stock trading

10.7. Six companies using smart contracts in real-world applications

10.7.1. Slock.It

10.7.2. Fizzy AXA

10.7.3. Etherparty

10.7.4. Propy

10.7.5. Populous

10.7.6. PolySwarm

10.8. Challenges

10.9. Historical attacks and issues with smart contracts

10.10. Conclusion

10.11. References

Chapter 11. Healthcare Research Using Blockchain Technology: A Future Perspective

11.1. Introduction

11.2. Benefits of using Blockchain in the healthcare industry.

11.3. Application of Blockchain in the healthcare industry

11.4. Merging of Blockchain with artificial intelligence in healthcare

11.5. Drawbacks of using Blockchain in the healthcare industry

11.6. Conclusion and future scope

11.7. References

List of Authors

Index

EULA.

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ISBN:

9781394229512

1394229518

9781394229499

1394229496

OCLC:

1410923100