It takes 17 years on average to bring new medical treatments ideas into evidence-based clinical practice. The growing replicability crisis in science further delays these "new miracles." Blockchain can improve science and accelerate medical research while bringing a new layer of trust to healthcare. This book is about science, its value to medicine, and how we can use blockchain to improve the quality and impact of both. The book looks at science and medicine from an insider’s perspective and describes the processes, successes, shortcomings and opportunities in an accessible way for a broad audience. It weaves this a non-technical look at the emerging world of blockchain technology; what it is, where it is useful, and how it can improve science and medicine. It lays out a roadmap for this application to transform how we develop knowledge about health and medicine to improve our lives. In the first part, Blockchain isn’t Tech, the authors look at blockchain/distributed ledger technology along with critical trade-offs and current explorations of its utility. They give an overview of use cases for the technology across industries, including finance, manufacturing and healthcare, with interviews and insights from leaders across government, academia, and tech/health industry both big and start-up. In the second part, Science is Easy, the authors look at science as a process and how this drives advancement in medicine. They shed a light on some of science’s shortcomings, including the reproducibility crisis and problems with misaligned incentives (i.e. publish or perish). They apply a breakdown of critical components to the functional steps in the scientific process and outline how the open science movement is looking to improve these, while highlighting the limit of these fixes with current technology, incentives and structure of science. In the third part, DAO of Science, the authors look at how blockchain applied to open science can impact medical research. They examine how this distributed approach can provide better quality science, value-based research and faster medical miracles. Finally, they provide a vision of the future of distributed medical research and give a roadmap of steps to get there.

The healthcare business is a huge and intricate sector that includes a diverse array of organizations and people committed to the diagnosis, treatment, management, and prevention of illnesses and diseases. It is one of the most important industries in the world. Hospitals, clinics, medical device manufacturers, pharmaceutical firms, insurance companies, research institutes, and a great many more kinds of businesses and organizations are included in this category. Challenges in the healthcare industry Rising healthcare costs: The ever-increasing expense of medical treatment is one of the key obstacles that must be overcome. There are a number of factors that contribute to the growing financial burden that is placed on people, governments, and healthcare systems. Some of these factors include enhanced medical technology, costly pharmaceuticals, an ageing population, and chronic illnesses. Access to healthcare: Access to high-quality medical treatment may be difficult to get in many parts of the world, especially for underserved groups, persons with low incomes, and people who live in rural or distant places. There are a number of reasons that might contribute to limited access, including geographical limitations, a deficiency in healthcare infrastructure, an inadequate number of healthcare professionals, and socioeconomic inequities. Fragmented healthcare systems: The fragmentation of many healthcare systems throughout the globe results in patients receiving treatment from a myriad of different providers and organisations, which often suffers from a lack of efficient coordination and communication. The fragmentation of healthcare systems may result in inefficiencies, disconnected treatment, medical mistakes, and higher expenses.

Blockchain for Healthcare Systems: Challenges, Privacy, and Securing of Data provides a detailed insight on how to reap the benefits of blockchain technology in healthcare, as the healthcare sector faces several challenges associated with privacy and security issues. It also provides in-depth knowledge regarding blockchain in healthcare and the underlying components. This book explores securing healthcare data using blockchain technology. It discusses challenges and solutions for blockchain technology in the healthcare sector and presents the digital transformation of the healthcare sector using different technologies. It covers the handling of healthcare data/medical records and managing the medical supply chain all using blockchain technology. The contents of this book are highly beneficial to educators, researchers, and others working in a similar domain.

This volume reviews cutting-edge innovations in blockchain technology that are propelling the healthcare industry into a new era of efficiency and security. It brings 14 reviews contributed by experts in blockchain and Web3 technologies into a single volume. Each contribution includes a summary for easy understanding and scientific references for advanced readers. Key Themes: Empowering Decentralized Healthcare: Learn about the future of decentralized healthcare, powered by blockchain, ensuring a seamless and patient-centric experience. Clinical Trials: Discover how blockchain is reshaping clinical trials, offering a glimpse into a future of optimized medical research. Data Security: Uncover the strategic use of blockchain in securing vital clinical trials data, ensuring confidentiality and integrity at every step. Blockchain-based Healthcare delivery: Delve into a comprehensive review of blockchain technology in the health sector, revealing its potential to transform healthcare systems with efficient and precise solutions. Predict, Prevent, and Protect: Understand how blockchain technology serves as a predictive tool, aiding in the prevention and control of the spread of COVID-19. This volume is a must-read for healthcare practitioners and administrators seeking to harness the power of blockchain in medicine and healthcare. It also provides information for researchers and business professionals who want to understand the innovative role of blockchain technology in the healthcare sector.

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.

Blockchain is a series of transactions recorded in blocks and secured cryptographically. It is immutable, decentralized, and transparent and has proved to be beneficial across all domains to protect and store data. Maintaining privacy, integrity, and security, blockchain is particularly valuable to the healthcare industry. of healthcare data. Blockchain in Digital Healthcare provides a panoramic review of prospects of blockchain technology in the healthcare domain. Users can record transactions in blocks in an immutable distributed ledger that cannot be changed once recorded and/or published. Blockchain is also decentralized, which eliminates dependency on a trusted third party to facilitate transactions, enabling clients and other users of the blockchain to take ownership of the data they push on the network. Blockchain also makes transactions more secure as clients have their own copies. Features: Provides systematic and comprehensive understanding of the block chain technology and the potential in healthcare Describes how security and privacy concerns of healthcare data can be addressed using Blockchain Technology Discusses the concept of smart contracts for performing advanced level scripting to create a blockchain network to provide a platform for the development of decentralized applications Includes a chapter on role of blockchain based insurance application using Ethereum/Hyperledger Presents cases of blockchain use for various aspects of drug manufacturing and the pharma supply chain This book serves as a reference book for IT professionals, scientific investigators and researchers who need to analyze the prospects of blockchain technology in healthcare.

The main aim of Healthcare 4.0: Health Informatics and Precision Data Management is to improve the services given by the healthcare industry and to bring meaningful patient outcomes by applying the data, information and knowledge in the healthcare domain. Features: Improves the quality of health data of a patient Presents a wide range of opportunities and renewed possibilities for healthcare systems Gives a way for carefully and meticulously tracking the provenance of medical records Accelerates the process of disease-oriented data and medical data arbitration Brings meaningful patient health outcomes Eradicates delayed clinical communications Helps the research intellectuals to step down further toward the disease and clinical data storage Creates more patient-centered services The precise focus of this handbook is on the potential applications and use of data informatics in healthcare, including clinical trials, tailored ailment data, patient and ailment record characterization and health records management.

How the Blockchain Technology is Changing the Landscape of HealthCare KEY FEATURES ● Includes detailed implementations of the blockchain technology in the real world to support evidence-based practices. ● Includes patient satisfaction, medical device installation, and Covid-19 prediction use cases. DESCRIPTION Before deciding whether or not a new piece of technology has credibility, institutions that specialize in the health sciences demand to see extensive documentation of it being used in clinical practice and published in academic journals. This book gives convincing facts to educate readers on this technology's advantages and limitations for advancing healthcare. This book discusses the deployment and use of blockchain technologies in real-world scientific, biomedical, and data applications. Applying the unique possibilities inherent to distributed ledger systems, the book reveals significant developments in health science research and development. Each chapter reveals the present applications of blockchain in drug development, drug and device tracking, real-world data collection, and more significant patient interaction. These all are utilized to open chances to further health science research. From the views of pharmaceutical executives, biotechnology startups, regulatory agencies, ethical review boards, and blockchain developers, this paradigm shift is investigated. After reading this book, the reader will understand the possibilities for enhancing and facilitating data use in health science research. WHAT YOU WILL LEARN ● Employ blockchain in a supervised environment and maintain data integrity and transparency. ● Connect distant data sources to encourage virtual trials. ● Connect different data sources to make big data analytics and visualizations elastic and real-time. ● Create crowdsourcing and data challenges without compromising IP. ● Disseminate blockchain education to the next generation of health science users. WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR This book will interest academicians, blockchain consultants, machine learning instructors, and anyone working toward utilizing blockchain technology in the health science sector. TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Internet of Medical Things-Blockchain Integration 2. Barriers and Benefits of Blockchain Adoption in the Healthcare System 3. Patient Engagement in Healthcare Using Technology 4. Distributed Ledger and Transaction processing 5. Medical Device Implementation in Blockchain 6. Predictive–Based Solution for COVID-19 7. Optimization of Blockchain Technology for Patient Satisfaction 8. A Cogitative Analysis in Healthcare 9. An Analysis of Overview of Blockchain 10. End-user Computing Using Blockchain Technology

This book presents state-of-the-art blockchain and AI advances in health care. Healthcare service is increasingly creating the scope for blockchain and AI applications to enter the biomedical and healthcare world. Today, blockchain, AI, ML, and deep learning are affecting every domain. Through its cutting-edge applications, AI and ML are helping transform the healthcare industry for the better. Blockchain is a decentralization communication platform that has the potential to decentralize the way we store data and manage information. Blockchain technology has potential to reduce the role of middleman, one of the most important regulatory actors in our society. Transactions are simultaneously secure and trustworthy due to the use of cryptographic principles. In recent years, blockchain technology has become very trendy and has penetrated different domains, mostly due to the popularity of cryptocurrencies. One field where blockchain technology has tremendous potential is health care, due to the need for a more patient-centric approach in healthcare systems to connect disparate systems and to increase the accuracy of electronic healthcare records (EHRs).