TY - JOUR
T1 - Blockchain for healthcare data management
T2 - opportunities, challenges, and future recommendations
AU - Yaqoob, Ibrar
AU - Salah, Khaled
AU - Jayaraman, Raja
AU - Al-Hammadi, Yousof
N1 - Funding Information:
This publication is based upon work supported by the Khalifa University of Science and Technology under Award No. CIRA-2019-001.
Funding Information:
This publication is based upon work supported by the Khalifa University of Science and Technology under Award No. CIRA-2019-001.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021, Springer-Verlag London Ltd., part of Springer Nature.
PY - 2022/7
Y1 - 2022/7
N2 - Today's healthcare data management systems are facing key challenges in terms of data transparency, traceability, immutability, audit, data provenance, flexible access, trust, privacy, and security. Also, a large portion of existing healthcare systems leveraged for managing data are centralized that pose potential risks of single point of failures in case of natural disasters. Blockchain is an emerging and disruptive decentralized technology that has the potential to significantly revolutionize, reshape, and transform the way data are being handled in healthcare industries. In this paper, we discuss how leveraging blockchain for healthcare data management systems can lead to stimulate innovations and bring major improvements. We present the key blockchain features and characteristics. We discuss the premier advantages of adopting blockchain technology along with opportunities for healthcare industries. We present recent on-going projects and case studies to show the practicality of blockchain technology for various healthcare applications. We identify and discuss important open research challenges hindering the successful adoption of blockchain in the healthcare sector. Finally, we outline several future research directions.
AB - Today's healthcare data management systems are facing key challenges in terms of data transparency, traceability, immutability, audit, data provenance, flexible access, trust, privacy, and security. Also, a large portion of existing healthcare systems leveraged for managing data are centralized that pose potential risks of single point of failures in case of natural disasters. Blockchain is an emerging and disruptive decentralized technology that has the potential to significantly revolutionize, reshape, and transform the way data are being handled in healthcare industries. In this paper, we discuss how leveraging blockchain for healthcare data management systems can lead to stimulate innovations and bring major improvements. We present the key blockchain features and characteristics. We discuss the premier advantages of adopting blockchain technology along with opportunities for healthcare industries. We present recent on-going projects and case studies to show the practicality of blockchain technology for various healthcare applications. We identify and discuss important open research challenges hindering the successful adoption of blockchain in the healthcare sector. Finally, we outline several future research directions.
KW - Blockchain
KW - e-Health
KW - emHealth
KW - Healthcare
KW - Healthcare data management
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85099196137&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s00521-020-05519-w
DO - 10.1007/s00521-020-05519-w
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85099196137
SN - 0941-0643
VL - 34
SP - 11475
EP - 11490
JO - Neural Computing and Applications
JF - Neural Computing and Applications
IS - 14
ER -
