Survey on Blockchain Applications for Healthcare: Reflections and Challenges

Swati Megha; Hamza Salem; Enes Ayan; Manuel Mazzara; Hamna Aslam; Mirko Farina; Mohammad Reza Bahrami; Muhammad Ahmad

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-75078-7_32

Survey on Blockchain Applications for Healthcare: Reflections and Challenges

Swati Megha^*
, Hamza Salem
, Enes Ayan
, Manuel Mazzara
, Hamna Aslam
, Mirko Farina
, Mohammad Reza Bahrami
, Muhammad Ahmad

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Blockchain is a decentralized, distributed, public, and digital ledger that is used to record transactions across many computers. At the top of Blockchain, Ethereum introduces smart contracts to support on-chain storage and enable Decentralized Apps (DApps) to interact with the Blockchain programmatically. In the healthcare domain, programmable Blockchains provide different solutions to resolve some key challenges, such as immutability, security, data provenance, robustness, availability, and privacy. This paper aims to categorize and evaluate different solutions in the healthcare domain that makes use of programmable Blockchain or part of it. We use a software engineering approach to organize the existing 23 papers in multiple categories such as challenges addressed and quality attributes promoted. We will further categorize solutions based on how much they have used Blockchain and show the other research which Blockchain is not recommended to use. This work is intended to provide researchers in the field with a well-defined and structured categorization, plus insights into the existing literature.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Advanced Information Networking and Applications - Proceedings of the 35th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications AINA 2021
Editors	Leonard Barolli, Isaac Woungang, Tomoya Enokido
Publisher	Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages	310-322
Number of pages	13
ISBN (Print)	9783030750770
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-75078-7_32
State	Published - 2021
Externally published	Yes
Event	35th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications, AINA 2021 - Toronto, Canada Duration: 12 May 2021 → 14 May 2021

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems
Volume	227
ISSN (Print)	2367-3370
ISSN (Electronic)	2367-3389

Conference

Conference	35th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications, AINA 2021
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Toronto
Period	12/05/21 → 14/05/21

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© 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Control and Systems Engineering
Signal Processing
Computer Networks and Communications

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Megha, S., Salem, H., Ayan, E., Mazzara, M., Aslam, H., Farina, M., Bahrami, M. R., & Ahmad, M. (2021). Survey on Blockchain Applications for Healthcare: Reflections and Challenges. In L. Barolli, I. Woungang, & T. Enokido (Eds.), Advanced Information Networking and Applications - Proceedings of the 35th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications AINA 2021 (pp. 310-322). (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems; Vol. 227). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-75078-7_32

Megha, Swati ; Salem, Hamza ; Ayan, Enes et al. / Survey on Blockchain Applications for Healthcare : Reflections and Challenges. Advanced Information Networking and Applications - Proceedings of the 35th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications AINA 2021. editor / Leonard Barolli ; Isaac Woungang ; Tomoya Enokido. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2021. pp. 310-322 (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems).

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Megha, S, Salem, H, Ayan, E, Mazzara, M, Aslam, H, Farina, M, Bahrami, MR & Ahmad, M 2021, Survey on Blockchain Applications for Healthcare: Reflections and Challenges. in L Barolli, I Woungang & T Enokido (eds), Advanced Information Networking and Applications - Proceedings of the 35th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications AINA 2021. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol. 227, Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, pp. 310-322, 35th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications, AINA 2021, Toronto, Canada, 12/05/21. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-75078-7_32

Survey on Blockchain Applications for Healthcare: Reflections and Challenges. / Megha, Swati; Salem, Hamza; Ayan, Enes et al.
Advanced Information Networking and Applications - Proceedings of the 35th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications AINA 2021. ed. / Leonard Barolli; Isaac Woungang; Tomoya Enokido. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2021. p. 310-322 (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems; Vol. 227).

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Survey on Blockchain Applications for Healthcare: Reflections and Challenges

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