Challenges and Future Work Directions in Healthcare Data Management Using Blockchain Technology

Abstract

In recent times, blockchain becomes a hot research topic and several research works have been made to investigate the applications of the blockchain to non-financial use cases. Healthcare is an important industry in which blockchain is anticipated to have substantial impacts. Exploration of this domain is certainly new and increasing rapidly in present times. Therefore, healthcare informatics research communities and physicians are struggling to retain pace with research progress in this area. This survey offers a detailed review of the ongoing study in the application of blockchain technologies in the healthcare sector. This survey elaborates on several research works involving the applicability of blockchain in healthcare, but there is an absence of enough prototype implementation and studies to describe the efficiency of these presented use cases. The survey additionally highlights the existing developments of blockchain applications in the medical domain, benefits, challenges, and future scope.