Creating Smart Healthcare with Blockchain and Advanced Digital Technology

Blockchain in healthcare is a recent breakthrough and is redefining the information architecture that underpins all healthcare services. Blockchain can make health information systems safer, more efficient, more accessible, and more dependable. This new book introduces the basic concepts of blockchain in relation to the healthcare sector and offers solutions for enhanced healthcare services, management, and administration.
The book deals with the use of blockchain in remotely monitoring patients, in creating medical contracts, and in enhancing data transmission security in healthcare. It covers the role of blockchain in patient selection and treatment strategies, in tracking diseases and pandemics, in managing supply chains, and in the health insurance sector. Finally, the book also presents the challenges that may occur due to digital transformation and looks at how blockchain technology can transform healthcare in the future.
Creating Smart Healthcare with Blockchain and Advanced Digital Technology is a comprehensive book that explores different aspects of blockchain in revolutionizing healthcare. It will be especially useful for researchers, medical personnel, academicians, industrial practitioners, and students in IT and healthcare.

Rishabha Malviya, PhD, has 11 years of research experience and is presently working as Associate Professor in the Department of Pharmacy, School of Medical and Allied Sciences, Galgotias University, India. His areas of interest include formulation optimization, nanoformulation, targeted drug delivery, localized drug delivery, and characterization of natural polymers as pharmaceutical excipients. He has authored more than 150 research/review papers for national/international journals of repute. He has over 50 patents to his name and many publications in reputed national and international journals (with a total of 91 cumulative impact factor). He has also received an Outstanding Reviewer Award from Elsevier. He has edited books (Wiley, Springer Nature, CRC Press/Taylor and Francis, Apple Academic Press, River Publisher, Lambert, etc.) and authored 15 book chapters. His name has been included in the Stanford University’s World’s Top 2% Scientists, 2020 by Elsevier BV and Stanford University. He is reviewer, editor, and editorial board member of more than 50 national and international journals. He was an invited author for the magazine Atlas of Science as well as a pharma magazine dealing with the B2B industry, Ingredients South Asia. He completed his BPharm at Uttar Pradesh Technical University and MPharm (Pharmaceutics) at Gautam Buddha Technical University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India. His PhD (Pharmacy) work was in novel formulation development techniques.

Sonali Sundram is Assistant Professor in the School of Medical & Allied Sciences at Galgotias University, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India. Previously, she worked as a research scientist on a project of ICMR at King George’s Medical University, Lucknow, India. After that, she joined BBDNIIT (Babu Banarasi Das Northern India Institute of Technology), Lucknow. Her PhD (Pharmacy) work was in Neurodegeneration and Nanoformulation. Her areas of interest include neurodegeneration, clinical research, and artificial intelligence. She has edited four books (Wiley, CRC Press/Taylor and Francis, River Publisher) and has organized more than 15 national and international seminars, conferences, and workshops. She has more than eight patents, both national and international, to her credit. She completed both BPharm and MPharm (Pharmacology) from Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University, Lucknow, India.