Blockchain in the Healthcare Sector

Author:

Hamzeh Zeid Saad1,Nassreddine Ghalia1ORCID,Younis Joumana2ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Jinan University, Lebanon

2. CNAM, France

Abstract

After the COVID-19 pandemic, the healthcare sector has faced many challenges as telehealth increased and the need for a secure and efficient healthcare record system became essential. Nowadays, the healthcare sector suffers from many problems, such as security, trust, availability of data, and drug traceability. Blockchain technology is a recent technology that has proven its efficiency in many sectors, such as finance, banking, bitcoin, and healthcare sectors. This chapter describes blockchain integration in the healthcare sector to cover these problems. The authors will start by introducing blockchain technology. After that, they will present the healthcare sector challenges. Then, they focus on advantages of blockchain usage to resolve existing problems in the healthcare sector, especially in the electronic health record and drug traceability.

Publisher

IGI Global

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