Blockchain for Healthcare: The Next Generation of Medical Records?

Pirtle, Claude J.; Ehrenfeld, Jesse M.

doi:10.1007/s10916-018-1025-3

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“…The healthcare sector has a large amount of data that must be processed on a daily basis. From patient records, health history, and test reports, to MRI Scans, X-rays, and other medical images-all the data, in the blockchain scenario, will be available to all the nodes in the chain, which requires a massive storage space [52,53]. Moreover, applications of blockchain are transaction-based, and hence the databases used for this technology have a tendency to grow at a rapid rate.…”

Section: Managing Storage Capacitymentioning

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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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Section: Managing Storage Capacitymentioning

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“…Another unique opportunity is using blockchain to manage and share a physician's credentials. As described in [39]: a physician can submit copies of their degrees, residency completion, online certificates, among other documents once to the administrative authority on the blockchain. Each credentialing committee would have a permissioned access to this digital ledger to submit and review records that have been collected in digital format.…”

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“…X-ray and ECG), are too large for direct storage. This challenge was discussed in [38], [23], [43] and [39].…”

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

Kassab

DeFranco

Malas

et al. 2021

IEEE Trans. Emerg. Topics Comput.

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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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“…We figure out that the trend of combining SDN and blockchain seems positive and will continue. Thanks to many benefits like management flexibility, scalability and data flow verification, blockchainbased SDN can have a broad application in various domains like intrusion detection [21], [37], healthcare industry [30], [35], vehicular [36], etc. Meanwhile, we advocate that more future efforts could be made on exploring how to improve the security and performance of blockchain-based SDN.…”

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“…The application of blockchain has been discussed in several domains like intrusion detection [28], Artificial Intelligence [39], IoT [25] and healthcare industry [35]. However, there are few surveys discussing the combination of SDN and blockchain technology.…”

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Towards Blockchain-Based Software-Defined Networking: Security Challenges and Solutions

Meng

Liu

et al. 2020

IEICE Trans. Inf. & Syst.

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Software-Defined Networking (SDN) enables flexible deployment and innovation of new networking applications by decoupling and abstracting the control and data planes. It has radically changed the concept and way of building and managing networked systems, and reduced the barriers to entry for new players in the service markets. It is considered to be a promising solution providing the scale and versatility necessary for IoT. However, SDN may also face many challenges, i.e., the centralized control plane would be a single point of failure. With the advent of blockchain technology, blockchain-based SDN has become an emerging architecture for securing a distributed network environment. Motivated by this, in this work, we summarize the generic framework of blockchainbased SDN, discuss security challenges and relevant solutions, and provide insights on the future development in this field.

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Blockchain for Healthcare: The Next Generation of Medical Records?

Cited by 99 publications

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Applications of Blockchain Technology in Medicine and Healthcare: Challenges and Future Perspectives

Applications of Blockchain Technology in Medicine and Healthcare: Challenges and Future Perspectives

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

Towards Blockchain-Based Software-Defined Networking: Security Challenges and Solutions

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