Blockchain Applications in Healthcare- Recent Advancements

In recent years, new inventions are taking place to adapt blockchain technology in various domains. Different researchers are proposing different frameworks for many applications. From the research done so far, it was seen that there was the need to focus on in-depth blockchain application analysis in healthcare sector. Motivated from the aforementioned facts, this research paper delivers blockchain's effectiveness and usefulness in the emerging domain of healthcare. The authors have focused on the researches done in last three years and identified a number of applications of blockchain technology in healthcare, a few of them discussed are – biomedical, prediction of disease, electronic health records, genomics and pharmaceuticals. Additionally, various challenges faced by the traditional healthcare sector along with the blockchain possible solutions are also discussed. Hence, this paper helps researchers to provide insights about works done in blockchain and its application in healthcare sector.