Singh Yuvraj, Jabbar M A, Kumar Shandilya Shishir, Vovk Olena, Hnatiuk Yaroslav
School of Computing Science and Engineering, VIT Bhopal University, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India.
Department of Computer Science and Engineering (AI&ML), Vardhaman College of Engineering, Hyderabad, Telangana, India.
Front Public Health. 2023 Sep 15;11:1229386. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2023.1229386. eCollection 2023.
Blockchain technology includes numerous elements such as distributed ledgers, decentralization, authenticity, privacy, and immutability. It has progressed past the hype to find actual use cases in industries like healthcare. Blockchain is an emerging area that relies on a consensus algorithm and the idea of a digitally distributed ledger to eliminate any intermediary risks. By enabling them to trace data provenance and any changes made, blockchain technology can enable different healthcare stakeholders to share access to their networks without violating data security and integrity. The healthcare industry faces challenges like fragmented data, security and privacy concerns, and interoperability issues. Blockchain technology offers potential solutions by ensuring secure, tamper-proof storage across multiple network nodes, improving interoperability and patient privacy. Encrypting patient data further enhances security and reduces unauthorized access concerns. Blockchain technology, deployed over the Internet, can potentially use the current healthcare data by using a patient-centric approach and removing the intermediaries. This paper discusses the effective utilization of blockchain technology in the healthcare industry. In contrast to other applications, the exoteric evaluation in this paper shows that the innovative technology called blockchain technology has a major role to play in the existing and future applications of the healthcare industry and has significant benefits.
区块链技术包含众多元素，如分布式账本、去中心化、真实性、隐私性和不可变性。它已从炒作阶段发展到在医疗保健等行业找到实际用例。区块链是一个新兴领域，依赖共识算法和数字分布式账本的概念来消除任何中介风险。通过使不同医疗保健利益相关者能够追踪数据来源和所做的任何更改，区块链技术可以让他们在不违反数据安全和完整性的情况下共享对其网络的访问权限。医疗保健行业面临着数据碎片化、安全和隐私问题以及互操作性问题等挑战。区块链技术通过确保跨多个网络节点的安全、防篡改存储，提高互操作性和患者隐私性，提供了潜在的解决方案。对患者数据进行加密进一步增强了安全性并减少了对未经授权访问的担忧。通过互联网部署的区块链技术可以采用以患者为中心的方法并去除中介，从而潜在地利用当前的医疗保健数据。本文讨论了区块链技术在医疗保健行业的有效利用。与其他应用不同，本文的外部评估表明，名为区块链技术的创新技术在医疗保健行业的现有和未来应用中具有重要作用，并带来显著益处。
