Blockchain Revolutionizing Healthcare Industry: A Survey of Existing Literature

Abstract

Abstract : Health care is a vast industry that requires huge data storage and sharing and this is where this industry faces multiple challenges and requires an efficient system. This review article aimed to summarize the benefits of the blockchain industry in the healthcare sector. Literature review was conducted through PubMed and Google Scholar. A total of 30 articles were selected for review purposes with keywords health care, blockchain technologies, and benefits of blockchain and blockchain and health care industry with search engines like Google Scholar, Research Gate, and APA journals. A thorough review of existing literature suggests that blockchain technology can be beneficial for many fields and subfields of the healthcare industry including patients, organizations, hospitals, pharmaceuticals, global record-keeping organizations, health professionals, and researchers. Blockchain can be beneficial as it is efficient, reliable, transparent, cost-effective, easily accessible, vast data storage and management enable, and many in many more ways. In a nutshell, the importance of blockchain in the healthcare industry and suggests incorporating this technology in healthcare for efficient working.