Role of Blockchain and Smart Contracts in Healthcare -Challenges and Benefits

Abstract

It is essential for healthcare 4.0, which includes patients and their care professionals, to have a dependable operating system to operate in a way that is free from the potential for danger. Items that are consistent with the current trajectory of economic progress when it comes to keeping a distributed ledger with several points of access honest, blockchain technology might be of assistance. This work investigates how technology may be used to raise the dependability of various types of systems. Further, a brief survey and comparative analysis of blockchain and smart contract-based development, operation, and maintenance of healthcare information systems are prepared in this work.