Blockchain-Assisted Technologies for Sustainable Healthcare System

This book highlights how blockchain and other emerging technologies can improve services, processes, and applications for a sustainable healthcare system. It covers theoretical and practical elements of blockchain technology and analyzes the possibilities, problems, applications, and research in the field of blockchain-based sustainable healthcare applications. It provides the necessary information for readers, blockchain practitioners, researchers, database professionals, etc. Furthermore, the book identifies current literature gaps on the application of blockchain technology in the sustainable healthcare industry.  

Sustainable healthcare is a data-intensive industry that generates, receives, and transmits massive amounts of data daily. Existing data-sharing protocols in sustainable healthcare systems routinely expose system vulnerabilities in ensuring the confidentiality and security of healthcare data. Most functions in sustainable healthcare systems involve the sharing or use of sensitive and personal data. A serious problem is developing technologies that preserve the usefulness of health data while protecting patient privacy and discretion in how their data is used. As a result, the research community studies safe, privacy-preserving, and sustainable health systems using emerging technologies such as blockchain. Blockchain has emerged as an essential technology in the current digital transformation of many industries, including supply chain, education, government, healthcare, and many more sustainable applications. Blockchain applications for healthcare data management can potentially develop new services for physicians, patients, and health institutions in patient records administration, payment management, claims, and data integrity. This allows patients and healthcare organizations to limit unauthorized access to sensitive information and to maintain irreversible audit trails of patient data access and change. Blockchain and other emerging technologies can potentially be used for sustainable health supply chain activities. By making the supply chain transparent and immutable, it can monitor and protect healthcare data at various levels while maintaining 100% integrity of healthcare data.

Mr. Saurabh Jain is an Associate Professor in the School of Computer Science at the University of Petroleum and Energy Studies (UPES), Dehradun. He completed his MTech in Information Security from MANIT, Bhopal, 2012 and is pursuing a PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from UPES. Previously, he served as an assistant professor in the Department of CSE at Oriental College of Technology, Bhopal, where he also held roles as head of department, M. Tech coordinator, and remote centre coordinator. With over 45 international research papers, patents, books, and book chapters to his credit, Mr. Jain has earned global certifications in blockchain technology and security. He has organised several national and international conferences, workshops, FDPs, and STPs. His research focuses on network security, web security, cryptography, and blockchain technology.

Keshav Kaushik, an accomplished academician and expert in cybersecurity and digital forensics, serves as an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Sharda School of Engineering & Technology, Sharda University, Greater Noida, India. As a key member of the Cybersecurity Centre of Excellence and Vice Chairperson of the Meerut ACM Professional Chapter, he has significantly advanced the field through his teaching, research, and leadership. Recognized among the world’s top 2% scientists by Stanford University and Elsevier in 2024, his scholarly portfolio includes over 150 publications, with 25 in SCI/SCIE/Scopus-indexed journals and 50+ in Scopus-indexed conferences. He has authored 40 books, contributed 25 book chapters, and holds one granted patent, six published patents, and five copyrights. Keshav is a Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH v11), ISO/IEC 27001 Lead Auditor, and IBM Cybersecurity Analyst. A Bentham Ambassador and Guest Editor for IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, he has delivered 50+ talks globally and earned accolades, including recognition from ISRO, AICTE, and Uttarakhand Police. A two-time GATE qualifier, he has a rich academic and professional trajectory marked by impactful mentorship and innovative research.

Prof. (Dr.) Adarsh Kumar is Professor in the School of Computer Science with the University of Petroleum & Energy Studies, Dehradun, India. He received his Master degree (M. Tech) in Software Engineering from Thapar University, Patiala, Punjab, India, and earned his PhD degree from Jaypee Institute of Information Technology University, Noida, India, followed by Post-Doc from Software Research Institute, Athlone Institute of Technology, Ireland. From 2005 to 2016, he has been associated with the Department of Computer Science Engineering & Information Technology, Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Noida, Uttar-Pradesh, India, where he worked as Assistant Professor. His main research interests are cybersecurity, cryptography, network security, and ad-hoc networks. He has many research papers (120+) in reputed journals, conferences and workshops. He participated in one European Union H2020 sponsored research project and he is currently executing one research projects sponsored from UPES SEED division and one sponsored from Lancaster University.