Blockchain for Healthcare 4.0 : Technology, Challenges, and Applications

Blockchain is a type of distributed ledger technology that consists of a growing list of records that are securely linked together using cryptography and numerous applications in every field, including healthcare. Blockchain for Healthcare 4.0: Technology, Challenges, and Applications presents an overview of the recent advances in blockchain technology which have led to new breakthroughs in the healthcare industry, the application of artificial intelligence (AI) with blockchain, challenges, and prospects.

Key Features:

• Highlights blockchain applications in the biomedical and pharmaceutical industries and remote healthcare.
• Discusses applications and advancement in blockchain framework to track diseases and outbreaks.
• Elaborates the role of blockchain in managing health records, tracing, and securing medical supplies.
• Focuses on efficient and secure medical data sharing through blockchain and secure cloud-based electronic health record (EHR), a system using an attribute-based cryptosystem.
• Presents techniques and methods to utilize blockchain technology for clinical studies and facilitates the transition to patient-driven interoperability.

The text is primarily written for graduate students and academic researchers in the fields of computer science and engineering, biomedical engineering, electrical engineering, and information technology.

Preface

Chapter 1 : Blockchain : A Digital Breakhthrough in Healthcare
Chapter 2 : Application of Blockchain in Medical Industry
Chapter 3 : Blockchain : A Decentralised, Persistence, Immutable, Consensus, and Irrevocable System in Healthcare.
Chapter 4 : Application of Blockchain in Tracking Diseases and Outbreaks
Chapter 5 : Building Efficient Smart Contract for Healthcare 4.0
Chapter 6 : Blockchain Technology : Reinventing the Management of Information Infrastructure
Chapter 7 : Potential of Blockchain in Disease Surveillance
Chapter 8 : Postmortem Concentrations : Distributed Privacy-Preserving Blockchain Authentication Framework in Cloud Forensics
Chapter 9 : Blockchain in Tracing and Securing Medical Supplies
Chapter 10 : Leveraging Blockchain in Sharing and Managing Health Record Credential
Chapter 11 : Healthcare Record Management for Healthcare 4.0 Via Blockchain : A Review of Current Applications, Opportunities, Challenges and Future Potential
Chapter 12 : Benefits and Roles of Blockchain in Genomics
Chapter 13 : Blockchain for Large-Scale Clinical Information Transaction
Chapter 14 : Sharing and Interpretation of Genomic Datasets Using Blockchain
Chapter 15 : Improved Data Transmission Technique for Health Care Emergency Vehicle Using Block Chain in Vanet
Chapter 16 : Blockchain Based Digital Twin to Predict Heart Attack

Index