A Systematic Review on the Role of Blockchain Technology in Healthcare: Challenges and Solutions
Abstract
Blockchain technology is used to record information in a way that makes it problematic or impossible to modify, hack or cheat the method. Blockchain has gained significant attention in various applications such as IoT, cybersecurity, finance, network data management, supply chain, and insurance. Many applications extend beyond financial services such as the healthcare industry. The healthcare industry has also adapted blockchain technology in its numerous sub-domains such as electronic health records (EHR), clinical research, genomic market and medical supply chain management, the healthcare system is gradually incorporating artificial intelligence (AI) into its systems, but it is not a one-size-fits-all solution these challenges. This research paper is conducted on a systematic literature review to discover the state-of-the-art research studies conducted on the issues of healthcare applications and different frameworks researchers suggested as their solutions through using blockchain technology. This paper also presents some challenges and future research directions, which can be develop with various methods of artificial intelligence and blockchain technology, as well as patients who can diagnose and treat using blockchain technology for safe and secure data sharing, it will transform healthcare systems with personalized, authentic and secure access to patient clinical data, and these data can be used for more health development and clinical research.
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