Smart Contracts in Healthcare

Schnitzbauer, Michael

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-65896-0_19

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“…Additionally, Blockchain supports the use of pseudo-identities to retain the anonymity of participants. Smart Contracts are deterministic, immutable computer programs that are deployed and executed on the Blockchain [19]. Once deployed, they cannot be changed -the only way to modify a Smart Contract is to deploy a new instance.…”

Section: Blockchain and Smart Contractsmentioning

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Smart Contract-based Consensus Building for Collaborative Medical Decision-Making

Sellak¹,

Chhetri²,

Huang³

et al. 2022

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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Medical decision-making is moving away from the traditional one-off dyadic encounter between the patient and physician, and transitioning towards a more inclusive, shared decision-making process that also considers the inputs from other stakeholders. This ensures that a patient's decision is not only based on a medical opinion, but also includes other considerations such as impact on family members, legal and financial implications, and experiences of patients in similar situations. However, given the sensitive nature of health data and decisions, there are several challenges associated with safeguarding the privacy, security and consent of all contributors and assuring the integrity of the process. We propose a collaborative medical decision-making platform that uses a consensus building mechanism implemented using Blockchain-based Smart Contracts to address some of the above challenges, thereby giving the participants confidence that both the decision-making process and the outcome(s) can be trusted. We also present a proof-of-concept implementation using the private Ethereum Blockchain to demonstrate practicability.

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Section: Blockchain and Smart Contractsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Smart Contract-based Consensus Building for Collaborative Medical Decision-Making

Sellak¹,

Chhetri²,

Huang³

et al. 2022

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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“…It is in the implementation of the fourth strategy that blockchain can play a major role by making sure that the transfer of information is direct, transparent, efficient, safe, unchanged and verifiable and enabling smart medical and insurance contracts. These features of blockchain can help to make progress in detecting, diagnosing and preventing 1 bringing domestic manufacturing back to a given country 2 moving manufacturing to a neighbouring country pandemics (Opportunites, 2020;Sharma et al 2020;Marbouh et al 2020;Nguyen et al, 2020;Degnarain, 2020;Du et al 2021;Schnitzbauer, 2021;Bansal, 2021).…”

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“…Various health care institutions rely on different software to collect information, manage medical records and conclude contracts. These inconveniences can be overcome by employing smart contracts on blockchain, which are automatically executed when conditions predetermined in an algorithm are met, thus enabling access to health care and improving its effectiveness (Du et al, 2021;Thompson, 2019;Schnitzbauer, 2021). Smart contracts are used to store agreements in a digital ledger.…”

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Blockchain Technology in Health Care — Lessons and Implications from the COVID-19 Pandemic

Rymarczyk¹

2022

Covid-19 Implications Fot the Economy

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The aim of this article is to investigate possible applications of blockchain technology in the fight against the pandemic, which, among other negative consequences, has disrupted global supply chains. Bottlenecks in the supply of raw materials and intermediary products for drug production had cascading effects in other areas, causing shortages in the supply of finished products. The author shows how blockchain-based smart contracts can help improve the functioning of the health service in general, how they can be used to optimize treatment methods and make social insurance more efficient. After reviewing the key features of blockchain technology and tracking the stages of its development, from the creation of the Bitcoin virtual currency to its use in smart contracts and other applications in combination with artificial intelligence in many spheres of the economy and social life, the presentation focuses on the use of blockchain in the management of medical records and its role in securing the stability of supplies of medicines and medical equipment.

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Blockchain Use Cases in Healthcare

Parlakkılıç

2022

Advances in Electronic Government, Digital Divide, and Regional Development

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The amount of health data created in the world is increasing exponentially every day. Existing technologies such as data storage, fast processing of stored data, and data security are still sufficient, but it is predicted that some problems will most likely occur. The positive effects of blockchain technology have attracted attention on issues such as ensuring that people avoid direct contact in the pandemic, saving time, facilitating international cooperation, and reducing paperwork. Blockchain technology allows for the elimination of an authority or a central server. This feature makes data processing processes incredibly fast. It allows patient health data to be stored regularly, transferred quickly, and easily anonymized when necessary. In this way, the needs of patients who continue their treatment at home or in the hospital can be determined in advance. The drugs to be used, the necessary medical devices, and the treatment to be applied can be determined quickly, and, if necessary, the product supply can be automatically procured in advance and made ready.

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Smart Contracts in Healthcare

Cited by 3 publications

References 20 publications

Smart Contract-based Consensus Building for Collaborative Medical Decision-Making

Smart Contract-based Consensus Building for Collaborative Medical Decision-Making

Blockchain Technology in Health Care — Lessons and Implications from the COVID-19 Pandemic

Blockchain Use Cases in Healthcare

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