Blockchain is a new age technology that keeps a record of every transaction performed using a cryptocurrency across server computers that are linked in a peer-to-peer network. Blockchain enables transactions to be secure, transparent and reliable. The importance of a robust, efficient, secure and patient-centric healthcare industry has never been the need of the hour. With the entire world being subjected to a pandemic the question of revolutionising the healthcare sector is being seen across various countries across the world. The applicability of Blockchain in the healthcare domain can be seen as a remarkable opportunity by researchers and scientists ’across the globe for solving pertinent real-world problems dealing with patient records, medical supply chain, wearable diagnostic tools and telemedicine sessions. This book focuses on the fundamentals of Blockchain technology along with the means and methods of its integration with the healthcare industry. It explores the current challenges pertaining to the healthcare sector and how blockchain technology can prove to be a solution. It examines the adoption challenges of blockchain technology in the healthcare industry and dives deeper into specific problem areas. The book allows the reader to have an enhanced understanding of Blockchain technology, AI and IoT across various application areas of the healthcare industry. The book serves the purpose of providing adequate knowledge about the fundamentals of Blockchain & IoT to a common reader along with facilitating a research scholar identify some futuristic problem areas in the healthcare domain resulting from the convergence of multiple technologies. Furthermore, the authors discuss relevant application areas such as patient data privacy protection, pharmaceutical supply chain, clinical, genomics, etc. along the course of the book. The book also talks through futuristic research areas for healthcare industry wherein blockchain and its allied technologies can prove beneficial.

Detailed Table of Contents:

1. Introduction to Blockchain

2. Role of Smart Contracts

3. Blockchain Platforms

4. Blockchain Consensus Algorithms

5. Blockchain Adoption Journey in the Healthcare Industry

6. Framework for Blockchain in Healthcare

7. Health Record System using Blockchain

8. Patient Data Privacy using Blockchain

9. Blockchain Technology on improving Clinical Trials

10. Blockchain applicability in Pharmaceutical Supply Chain

11. Blockchain in Genomics

12. Blockchain for IoT enabled Healthcare

13. Patient Monitoring using Blockchain Techniques

14. A Blockchain-enabled medical tourism ecosystem

15. Integration of Blockchain and AI for the Healthcare Industry

16. Adoption challenges being faced by Blockchain in Healthcare

17. Future of Healthcare research using Blockchain technology

18. Case Studies for Blockchain in Healthcare

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