A Brief Systematics Visualization of blockchain technology in healthcare and insurance: A bibliometrics Analysis

Abstract

Blockchain is a decentralized technology that enables people to transact and manage their data. Its wide application is healthcare, insurance, and supply chain management etc. “the aim of this study is to analyze the work carried out in healthcare and insurance using blockchain technology for security and privacy of patient's health records”. The evolution and author productivity of blockchain in healthcare and insurance from 2016 to 2021 (August 2021) have been considered for survey. Where 1323 articles based on healthcare and 351 documents based on insurance were retrieved documents from Scopus. Using IEEE of database 666 documents has been found for the healthcare domain and 173 documents has been extracted for the Insurance domain, PubMed database 306 documents has been extracted for the healthcare domain. There are also over 30 documents for the insurance domain. The search included the year 2021 as we are still in the third quarter of the year. The US, China and India are the major contributors. VOS viewer was used as a bibliometric analysis tool to study the various aspects of blockchain technology in health care & insurance. “The main point of databases is analyzed in the terms of number of documents per year, sources of publications, documents per country, authors correlation etc. parameters are statistically analyzed. Using statistical and network analysis we can conclude the there is huge scope and future to work in the blockchain domain to achieve more integrity, security and privacy”.