%0 Journal Article
%T Applications of Blockchain Technology in Medicine and Healthcare: Challenges and Future Perspectives
%A Aiman Khalil
%A Aisha Zahid Junejo
%A Asad Ali Siyal
%A Georgia Soursou
%A Kainat Ahmed
%A Muhammad Zawish
%J -
%D 2019
%R https://doi.org/10.3390/cryptography3010003
%X Abstract Blockchain technology has gained considerable attention, with an escalating interest in a plethora of numerous applications, ranging from data management, financial services, cyber security, IoT, and food science to healthcare industry and brain research. There has been a remarkable interest witnessed in utilizing applications of blockchain for the delivery of safe and secure healthcare data management. Also, blockchain is reforming the traditional healthcare practices to a more reliable means, in terms of effective diagnosis and treatment through safe and secure data sharing. In the future, blockchain could be a technology that may potentially help in personalized, authentic, and secure healthcare by merging the entire real-time clinical data of a patient¡¯s health and presenting it in an up-to-date secure healthcare setup. In this paper, we review both the existing and latest developments in the field of healthcare by implementing blockchain as a model. We also discuss the applications of blockchain, along with the challenges faced and future perspectives. View Full-Tex
%K blockchain
%K healthcare
%K biomedical
%K data-sharing
%K medicine
%K distributed ledger technology
%K distributed systems
%K health information exchange
%K security
%K interoperability
%K transparency
%K privacy
%U https://www.mdpi.com/2410-387X/3/1/3