Description
Unleashing the Potentials of Blockchain Technology for Healthcare Industries discusses blockchain and its adaptation in healthcare industries to provide a secured framework to safeguard healthcare data, both patient and hospital data. The book integrates key pillars of blockchain such as foundations, architecture, smart contracts, adoption, standards, service (BaaS), security, consensus algorithms, drug discovery process, among others, for fortifying the current practices in the healthcare industries. In addition, it offers solutions to the pressing issues currently being faced by the healthcare processes due to the COVD-19 pandemic.This will be a valuable resource for medical informaticians, researchers, healthcare professionals and members of the biomedical field who are interested in learning more about the potentials of blockchain in healthcare.- Presents comprehensive knowledge on blockchain and its adaptation in healthcare industries- Covers a wide spectrum of healthcare areas such as product integrity, drug traceability, patient data management, digital identity management, security and control of healthcare transactions, returned drugs authenticity, pharma supply chain compliance, clinical trials data quality, and reliability- Provides an instant reference for beginners to advanced industrial practitioners, researchers and academicians who want to understand the role, impact and challenges of adopting blockchain in healthcare industries
Table of Contents
1. Foundations, Need, State-of-the-art Blockchain technologies, its adaptations and impact on Healthcare industries 2. Blockchain: Inherent Security features of Blockchain popularity and its Security architecture 3. Enabling Blockchain Architecture for Health information exchanges (HIE) 4. End-to-End blockchain powered secured solutions for Counterfeit Drug Detection: A Pharmaceutical Industry Perspective 5. Blockchain enabled Solution for Traceability in Smart Supply Chain 6. An Evolutionary Predictive Security Control Architecture for Healthcare Transations in IoT-Cloud-based Storage 7. A Blockchain and Machine Learning based Approach for Health Insurance Fraud Detection 8. Security and Privacy facets of Electronic Health Record 9. Measure the Effect of Smart-contract Blockchain on Smart Healthcare Centre Management 10. Blockchain Technology for Universal Health Coverage: A Preliminary Overview of Law & Policy 11. Blockchain based Incessant, User-Friendly, Secure and Unlimited Patient Care Services and Management 12. Blockchain-based Reliable SCM for Vaccine Distribution and Traceability using Identity Management Approach 13. Quick Response Coding Approach for Drug Traceability 14. Drug Traceability using Blockchain 15. Impact of Blockchain In Health Care System
