Applications of Blockchain Technology in Medicine and Healthcare: Challenges and Future Perspectives

TLDR

Blockchain technology has attracted growing interest across many domains, including healthcare, where it promises secure data management, reliable diagnosis, and personalized care through real‑time clinical data integration. This paper reviews current and emerging blockchain applications in healthcare, focusing on implementation models. The authors discuss these applications, the challenges they face, and future perspectives for blockchain adoption in medicine.

Abstract

Blockchain technology has gained considerable attention, with an escalating interest in a plethora of numerous applications, ranging from data management, financial services, cyber security, IoT, and food science to healthcare industry and brain research. There has been a remarkable interest witnessed in utilizing applications of blockchain for the delivery of safe and secure healthcare data management. Also, blockchain is reforming the traditional healthcare practices to a more reliable means, in terms of effective diagnosis and treatment through safe and secure data sharing. In the future, blockchain could be a technology that may potentially help in personalized, authentic, and secure healthcare by merging the entire real-time clinical data of a patient’s health and presenting it in an up-to-date secure healthcare setup. In this paper, we review both the existing and latest developments in the field of healthcare by implementing blockchain as a model. We also discuss the applications of blockchain, along with the challenges faced and future perspectives.