A view on the blockchain as a solution to the healthcare industry: Challenges and opportunities

Abstract

Due to the advancement of technology, the large volume of digital data increases rapidly in every field. One of the most sensitive digital data field is the healthcare system. Healthcare information contains high delicate private data, and it needs to be shared among the peoples such as health specialists, pharmacist, family members, insurance companies, hospitals etc. Healthcare organization have not only their patient’s medical details which include insurance and financial account information. The breach of healthcare information is one of the most important concern nowadays. Recently, the research studies are going on Blockchain technology to secure the health care system. Blockchain technology is an open and distributed online database system which comprises the list of blocks that are related to each other. This paper summarizes the impact of blockchain in the healthcare system and enfranchises the privacy of a patient’s health data. This paper also addresses the issues, challenges, and research onset of blockchain in the area of the healthcare system.