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The role of blockchain technology in telehealth and telemedicine
Objective. Telehealth and telemedicine systems aim to deliver remote healthcare services to mitigate the spread of COVID-9. Also, they can help to manage scarce healthcare resources to control the massive burden of COVID-19 patients in hospitals. However, a large portion of today's telehealth a...
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2021
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7842132/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33540131 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2021.104399 |
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author | Ahmad, Raja Wasim Salah, Khaled Jayaraman, Raja Yaqoob, Ibrar Ellahham, Samer Omar, Mohammed |
author_facet | Ahmad, Raja Wasim Salah, Khaled Jayaraman, Raja Yaqoob, Ibrar Ellahham, Samer Omar, Mohammed |
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description | Objective. Telehealth and telemedicine systems aim to deliver remote healthcare services to mitigate the spread of COVID-9. Also, they can help to manage scarce healthcare resources to control the massive burden of COVID-19 patients in hospitals. However, a large portion of today's telehealth and telemedicine systems are centralized and fall short of providing necessary information security and privacy, operational transparency, health records immutability, and traceability to detect frauds related to patients’ insurance claims and physician credentials. Methods. The current study has explored the potential opportunities and adaptability challenges for blockchain technology in telehealth and telemedicine sector. It has explored the key role that blockchain technology can play to provide necessary information security and privacy, operational transparency, health records immutability, and traceability to detect frauds related to patients’ insurance claims and physician credentials. Results. Blockchain technology can improve telehealth and telemedicine services by offering remote healthcare services in a manner that is decentralized, tamper-proof, transparent, traceable, reliable, trustful, and secure. It enables health professionals to accurately identify frauds related to physician educational credentials and medical testing kits commonly used for home-based diagnosis. Conclusions. Wide deployment of blockchain in telehealth and telemedicine technology is still in its infancy. Several challenges and research problems need to be resolved to enable the widespread adoption of blockchain technology in telehealth and telemedicine systems. |
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spelling | pubmed-78421322021-01-29 The role of blockchain technology in telehealth and telemedicine Ahmad, Raja Wasim Salah, Khaled Jayaraman, Raja Yaqoob, Ibrar Ellahham, Samer Omar, Mohammed Int J Med Inform Review Article Objective. Telehealth and telemedicine systems aim to deliver remote healthcare services to mitigate the spread of COVID-9. Also, they can help to manage scarce healthcare resources to control the massive burden of COVID-19 patients in hospitals. However, a large portion of today's telehealth and telemedicine systems are centralized and fall short of providing necessary information security and privacy, operational transparency, health records immutability, and traceability to detect frauds related to patients’ insurance claims and physician credentials. Methods. The current study has explored the potential opportunities and adaptability challenges for blockchain technology in telehealth and telemedicine sector. It has explored the key role that blockchain technology can play to provide necessary information security and privacy, operational transparency, health records immutability, and traceability to detect frauds related to patients’ insurance claims and physician credentials. Results. Blockchain technology can improve telehealth and telemedicine services by offering remote healthcare services in a manner that is decentralized, tamper-proof, transparent, traceable, reliable, trustful, and secure. It enables health professionals to accurately identify frauds related to physician educational credentials and medical testing kits commonly used for home-based diagnosis. Conclusions. Wide deployment of blockchain in telehealth and telemedicine technology is still in its infancy. Several challenges and research problems need to be resolved to enable the widespread adoption of blockchain technology in telehealth and telemedicine systems. Elsevier B.V. 2021-04 2021-01-28 /pmc/articles/PMC7842132/ /pubmed/33540131 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2021.104399 Text en © 2021 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Review Article Ahmad, Raja Wasim Salah, Khaled Jayaraman, Raja Yaqoob, Ibrar Ellahham, Samer Omar, Mohammed The role of blockchain technology in telehealth and telemedicine |
title | The role of blockchain technology in telehealth and telemedicine |
title_full | The role of blockchain technology in telehealth and telemedicine |
title_fullStr | The role of blockchain technology in telehealth and telemedicine |
title_full_unstemmed | The role of blockchain technology in telehealth and telemedicine |
title_short | The role of blockchain technology in telehealth and telemedicine |
title_sort | role of blockchain technology in telehealth and telemedicine |
topic | Review Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7842132/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33540131 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2021.104399 |
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