Blockchain in Health Sciences

The book provides a comprehensive understanding of how blockchain technology can revolutionize healthcare by improving patient outcomes, enhancing data privacy, and driving innovative solutions to industry challenges.
Blockchain in Health Sciences is an essential roadmap for navigating the complex landscape of blockchain technology in healthcare. From foundational concepts to real-world applications, this book empowers understanding to harness the potential of blockchain to improve patient outcomes, enhance data privacy, and optimize healthcare delivery. Delve into the integration of blockchain with the Internet of Things and AI to uncover groundbreaking solutions for challenges faced by the healthcare industry. Gain insights into the regulatory and ethical implications of blockchain in healthcare, ensuring responsible and effective implementation. Each chapter unveils the current uses of blockchain in drug discovery, drug and device tracking, real-world data collection, and increased patient engagement, used to unlock opportunities to advance health sciences research. This book is an essential guide for readers exploring opportunities to empower and enable data in health science research.
Readers will find the volume:
- Introduces the fundamentals of blockchain and its integration with IoT in healthcare;
- Provides practical applications across patient records, drug supply chains, and genomics research;
- Explores the synergy of AI, IoT, and blockchain for unprecedented healthcare advancements.

Audience
Healthcare professionals, researchers, policymakers, IT experts, and anyone interested in the future of healthcare.