Healthcare Management: Prospects and Risks of Using Blockchain Technology

Reimagining KYC Using Blockchain Technology

The Know Your Customer (KYC) process is an integral part of client onboarding and requires banks to validate and verify primary documents. The market today, though, is flooded with KYC utilities that help manage these documents and share them with multiple entities, but they provide little value addition. Blockchain technology, with its concept of distributed, time-stamped ledgers, can effectiv...

Proposal for Chapter 3 Blockchain Technology Use Cases in Healthcare

Blockchain technology alleviates the reliance on a centralized authority to certify information integrity and ownership, as well as mediate transactions and exchange of digital assets, while enabling secure and pseudo-anonymous transactions along with agreements directly between interacting parties. It possesses key properties, such as immutability, decentralization, and transparency, that pote...

Risks and Opportunities for Systems Using Blockchain and Smart Contracts

A Narrative Review of Blockchain in Healthcare: Applications and challenges

Introduction: Healthcare as an industry has unique requirements such as patient security and privacy, interoperability, sharing, transmission, and access control of patient data. On the other hand, the advantages of blockchain technology and the compliance of these advantages with the requirements of the health industry have encouraged researchers to investigate the methods of applying blockcha...

A Narrative Review of Blockchain in Healthcare: Applications and challenges

Introduction: Healthcare as an industry has unique requirements such as patient security and privacy, interoperability, sharing, transmission, and access control of patient data. On the other hand, the advantages of blockchain technology and the compliance of these advantages with the requirements of the health industry have encouraged researchers to investigate the methods of applying blockcha...