Abstract
The SARS-CoV2 pandemic has impacted risk management globally. Blockchain has been increasingly applied to healthcare management, as a strategic tool to strengthen operative protocols and to create the proper basis for an efficient and effective evidence-based decisional process. We aim to validate blockchain in healthcare, and to suggest a trace-route for a COVID19-safe clinical practice. The use of blockchain in combination with artificial intelligence systems allows the creation of a generalizable predictive system that could contribute to the containment of pandemic risk on national territory. A SWOT analysis of the adoption of a blockchain-based prediction model in healthcare and SARS-CoV-2 infection has been carried out to underline opportunities and limits to its adoption. Blockchain could play a strategic role in future digital healthcare: specifically, it may work to improve COVID19-safe clinical practice. The main concepts, and particularly those related to clinical workflow, obtainable from different blockchain-based models have been reported here and critically discussed.
Highlights
The World Health Organization (WHO) has recommended that countries worldwide draw up a “Pandemic Plan”, due to the increased possibility of pandemic risk
Blockchain technology belongs to the wider category of Distributed Ledger technologies, whose functioning is based mainly on a register structured in blocks linked in a network; each transaction performed in a block of the network is validated through a process based on the consensus distributed across all the nodes
The blockchain is increasingly applied to healthcare to create the proper basis for an efficient and effective evidence-based decisional
Summary
The World Health Organization (WHO) has recommended that countries worldwide draw up a “Pandemic Plan”, due to the increased possibility of pandemic risk. The Lombardy region, involved from the start in the management of the epidemic, has proved to be able to make a rapid response to the outbreak in the north of Italy; in less than two weeks, a traditional infectious disease department was converted into a “COVID-19 department”, doubling bed capacity and creating a sub-intensive ward and a highly-targeted care ward This healthcare plan was further improved, thanks to the efforts of many clinicians, nurses, administrative staff, and hospital management, over a very short time. Hospitals were asked to provide the screening test to operators and this process represented a representative sample to investigate Thanks to these data, the regional authorities decided to use restrictive measure to limit the infection to a large part of the population [10]. We aim to validate blockchain in healthcare, and, in more detail, to suggest a traceroute for a COVID19-safe clinical practice
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