Blockchain Applications for Healthcare Informatics: Beyond 5G

Blockchain Applications for Healthcare Informatics: Beyond 5G offers a comprehensive survey of 5G-enabled technology in healthcare applications. This book investigates the latest research in blockchain technologies and seeks to answer some of the practical and methodological questions surrounding privacy and security in healthcare. It explores the most promising aspects of 5G for healthcare industries, including how hospitals and healthcare systems can do better. Chapters investigate the detailed framework needed to maintain security and privacy in 5G healthcare services using blockchain technologies, along with case studies that look at various performance evaluation metrics, such as privacy preservation, scalability and healthcare legislation. Review Provides advanced coverage of the latest research trends in blockchain-enabled applications for healthcare From the Back Cover <p>The use of Fifth Generation (5G) cellular networks in the healthcare sector has grown at an exponential rate over the past few years. Today, the majority of 5G healthcare systems are built using centralized client-servers, cloud servers, strong databases, and the Internet. Large numbers of applications are therefore using 5G healthcare solutions for better service, including large image file transfers, virtual visits with doctors, AR for staff education and training, claims and billing management, reliable and real-time remote monitoring, securing medical research data, securing patient data, ensuring the drug supply chain, facilitating medical data acquisition, and allowing doctors to prescribe earlier interventions and improve patient outcomes. To secure these 5G healthcare networks, many new blockchain solutions are available, including decentralized systems and applications.</p> <p><i>Blockchain Applications for Healthcare Informatics: Beyond 5G</i> offers a comprehensive survey of 5G-enabled technology which serves as the backbone for blockchain-based healthcare applications. This book investigates the latest research in blockchain technologies and seeks to answer some of the practical and methodological questions in the journey to maintain privacy and security in the healthcare sector: How can reliable and real-time remote monitoring be achieved? How can hospitals and healthcare systems optimize their infrastructures and workflows to make the most of 5G use cases? Chapters explore the most promising aspects of 5G for healthcare industries, as well as how 5G technology can help hospitals and healthcare systems do better. Chapters investigate the detailed framework needed to maintain security and privacy in 5G healthcare services using blockchain technologies, as well as comparative case studies looking at the various performance evaluation metrics, such as privacy preservation, scalability, and healthcare legislation.</p> About the Author Dr. Sudeep Tanwar is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering Department at the Institute of Technology, Nirma University, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. He is also a Visiting Professor at Jan Wyzykowski University in Polkowice, Poland and University of Pitesti in Pitesti, Romania. He received a B.Tech in 2002 from Kurukshetra University, an M.Tech (Honor’s) in 2009 from Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi, and a Ph.D. in 2016 with specialization in Wireless Sensor Network. He has authored or co-authored more than 130 technical research papers and he has also edited/authored 10 books. He has guided many students leading to M.E./M.Tech and Ph.D. He is an Associate Editor of IJCS and Security and Privacy Journal. His current research interests include: wireless sensor networks in healthcare, fog computing, smart grid, IoT, and blockchain technology.