Blockchain Technology Use Cases in Healthcare
Incorporation of technological innovations and inventions in healthcare procedures has resulted in effectiveness and efficiency as well as quality enhancement. The incorporation of blockchain technology in healthcare systems has established a centralized authority for certification of information integrity and ownership (Zhang, Schmidt, White & Lenz, 2018). It has also enabled a secure and reliable transaction and direct agreement between interacting parties. Among the key characteristics that enable blockchain technology to facilitate these include transparency, immutability, and decentralization.
I first came upon the idea of incorporation of blockchain technology in healthcare systems and processes in a newspaper. After which i grew curious and wanted to learn more about how blockchain technology is being incorporated in healthcare systems in the contemporary world. I then started to consult online-based bibliographies to establish if there is any literature material relating to the incorporation of blockchain technology in healthcare systems and processes. I found several research topics relating to the incorporation of blockchain technology into healthcare systems and processes. I chose ten topics in which I was to perform an extra search using google scholar to establish their validity. Out of the ten topics, three were never discovered by google scholar. I had to eliminate the remaining seven using the year of publication criteria and select only peer-reviewed research works (Mårtensson, Fors, Fröberg, Zander & Nilsson, 2019).
To ensure I used the most recent information on the topic, I applied 2017 to be my base year in which only three research works passed the test. One was dated 2017, and the remaining two were dated 2018 and 2019. The last test was to ensure the research work I chose was peer-reviewed. Only the research work done in 2018 with the title Blockchain Technology Use Cases in Healthcare was peer-reviewed; the remaining two never had an association with any learning institution.