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Blockchain in the Healthcare Sector

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  • Zeid Saad Hamzeh

    (RHU - Rafik Hariri University)

  • Ghalia Nassreddine

    (RHU - Rafik Hariri University)

  • Joumana Younis

    (DICEN-IDF - Dispositifs d'Information et de Communication à l'Ère du Numérique - Paris Île-de-France - UPN - Université Paris Nanterre - CNAM - Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers [CNAM] - Université Gustave Eiffel, CORHIS - Communication, Ressources Humaines et Intervention Sociale - UPVM - Université Paul-Valéry - Montpellier 3 - UPVD - Université de Perpignan Via Domitia)

Abstract

After the COVID-19 pandemic, the healthcare sector has faced many challenges as telehealth increased and the need for a secure and efficient healthcare record system became essential. Nowadays, the healthcare sector suffers from many problems, such as security, trust, availability of data, and drug traceability. Blockchain technology is a recent technology that has proven its efficiency in many sectors, such as finance, banking, bitcoin, and healthcare sectors. This chapter describes blockchain integration in the healthcare sector to cover these problems. The authors will start by introducing blockchain technology. After that, they will present the healthcare sector challenges. Then, they focus on advantages of blockchain usage to resolve existing problems in the healthcare sector, especially in the electronic health record and drug traceability.

Suggested Citation

  • Zeid Saad Hamzeh & Ghalia Nassreddine & Joumana Younis, 2023. "Blockchain in the Healthcare Sector," Post-Print hal-04579405, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-04579405
    DOI: 10.4018/979-8-3693-0744-1.ch013
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