A survey: blockchain utilization for securing healthcare system

Abstract

Nowadays healthcare systems have started to be integrated with Internet of Things (IoT) in order to deliver some benefits in diagnosis and treatment process, such as remote patient monitoring and data usage for analytics and fast treatment. With the rise of IoT healthcare devices, number of electronic health records are increased to a rate that it is estimated to exceed billions in the next few years. Although cloud computing is a practical solution for processing this kind of data, healthcare records contain confidential and sensitive patient data which makes this system very vulnerable to the security and privacy threats, so it needs more investigation. For making this critical information more secure, researchers have come up with a solution of applying blockchain technology in healthcare. In this paper, we review the latest literature of blockchain application in healthcare from the security and privacy perspective. Several existing works have been discussed and a comparative study is done among the published works, along with potential future perspectives.

Keywords

• Blockchain Technology
• Healthcare System
• IoMT
• Privacy
• Security

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