Exploring Blockchain in Healthcare Industry

Healthcare is a crucial industry because it contains sensitive information of human health condition history then security and privacy are the main concern. Currently, Internet enables sharing of those records possible, but it poses a new risk like misuse of patient data as it is shared. Meanwhile in Indonesia one of the main problems that faced in healthcare industry is hospital integration of electronic medical recording. At the age of internet era, one of the hottest technology, that arise is blockchain due to it is astonishing features such as security, transparency, and traceability. Blockchain comes out as a holy grail technology that have great opportunity in the future and already implemented in several business industry. Many previous studies have implemented blockchain in Healthcare. The article examines the use of blockchain in healthcare system, that have been studied and reviewed intensively to see how this technology can be implemented in healthcare system in Indonesia, and to solve several Electronic Medical Record (EMR) problems such as security, privacy and interoperability.