Blockchain in the Healthcare Sector

Zeid Saad Hamzeh, Ghalia Nassreddine and Joumana Younis ()
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Zeid Saad Hamzeh: RHU - Rafik Hariri University
Ghalia Nassreddine: RHU - Rafik Hariri University
Joumana Younis: DICEN-IDF - Dispositifs d'Information et de Communication à l'Ère du Numérique - Paris Île-de-France - UPN - Université Paris Nanterre - Cnam - Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers [Cnam] - Université Gustave Eiffel, CORHIS - Communication, Ressources Humaines et Intervention Sociale - UPVM - Université Paul-Valéry - Montpellier 3 - UPVD - Université de Perpignan Via Domitia

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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.

Keywords: Electronic Health Record (EHR); Blockchain; Big Data; Merkle Tree; Cryptographic Hash Function; Stakeholder; Internet of Things (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023-09-26
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Published in Handbook of Research on Network-Enabled IoT Applications for Smart City Services, IGI Global, pp.230-249, 2023, Advances in Electronic Government, Digital Divide, and Regional Development, ⟨10.4018/979-8-3693-0744-1.ch013⟩

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DOI: 10.4018/979-8-3693-0744-1.ch013

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