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Blockchain in Healthcare: Insights on COVID-19.

Antonio FuscoGrazia DicuonzoVittorio Dell'AttiMarco Tatullo
Published in: International journal of environmental research and public health (2020)
The SARS-CoV2 pandemic has impacted risk management globally. Blockchain has been increasingly applied to healthcare management, as a strategic tool to strengthen operative protocols and to create the proper basis for an efficient and effective evidence-based decisional process. We aim to validate blockchain in healthcare, and to suggest a trace-route for a COVID19-safe clinical practice. The use of blockchain in combination with artificial intelligence systems allows the creation of a generalizable predictive system that could contribute to the containment of pandemic risk on national territory. A SWOT analysis of the adoption of a blockchain-based prediction model in healthcare and SARS-CoV-2 infection has been carried out to underline opportunities and limits to its adoption. Blockchain could play a strategic role in future digital healthcare: specifically, it may work to improve COVID19-safe clinical practice. The main concepts, and particularly those related to clinical workflow, obtainable from different blockchain-based models have been reported here and critically discussed.
Keyphrases
  • sars cov
  • healthcare
  • coronavirus disease
  • artificial intelligence
  • respiratory syndrome coronavirus
  • clinical practice
  • electronic health record
  • big data
  • deep learning
  • health information
  • social media