Blockchain for Healthcare 4.0: Technology, Challenges, and Applications

Blockchain is a type of distributed ledger technology that consists of a growing list of records that are securely linked together using cryptography and numerous applications in every field, including healthcare. Blockchain for Healthcare 4.0: Technology, Challenges, and Applications presents an overview of the recent advances in blockchain technology which have led to new breakthroughs in the healthcare industry, the application of artificial intelligence (AI) with blockchain, challenges, and prospects.

Key Features:

- Highlights blockchain applications in the biomedical and pharmaceutical industries and remote healthcare.

- Discusses applications and advancement in blockchain framework to track diseases and outbreaks.

- Elaborates the role of blockchain in managing health records, tracing, and securing medical supplies.

- Focuses on efficient and secure medical data sharing through blockchain and secure cloud-based electronic health record (EHR), a system using an attribute-based cryptosystem.

- Presents techniques and methods to utilize blockchain technology for clinical studies and facilitates the transition to patient-driven interoperability.

The text is primarily written for graduate students and academic researchers in the fields of computer science and engineering, biomedical engineering, electrical engineering, and information technology.

區塊鏈是一種分散式帳本技術，由一個安全地使用密碼學連結在一起的記錄列表組成，並在各個領域中廣泛應用，包括醫療保健。《區塊鏈在醫療保健4.0中的應用：技術、挑戰和應用》概述了區塊鏈技術的最新進展，這些進展在醫療保健行業中取得了突破，包括區塊鏈與人工智能的應用、挑戰和前景。

主要特點：
- 強調區塊鏈在生物醫學和製藥行業以及遠程醫療中的應用。
- 討論了區塊鏈框架在追蹤疾病和爆發事件方面的應用和進展。
- 詳細介紹了區塊鏈在管理健康記錄、追蹤和保護醫療用品方面的作用。
- 關注通過區塊鏈和安全的基於雲的電子健康記錄（EHR）實現高效且安全的醫療數據共享，該系統使用基於屬性的加密系統。
- 提出了利用區塊鏈技術進行臨床研究並促進轉向以患者為中心的互操作性的技術和方法。

本書主要針對計算機科學與工程、生物醫學工程、電氣工程和信息技術等領域的研究生和學術研究人員撰寫。

Dr. Rishabha Malviya completed B. Pharmacy from Uttar Pradesh Technical University and M. Pharmacy (Pharmaceutics) from Gautam Buddha Technical University, Lucknow Uttar Pradesh. His PhD (Pharmacy) work was in the area of Novel formulation development techniques. He has 12 years of research experience and presently working as Associate Professor in the Department of Pharmacy, School of Medical and Allied Sciences, Galgotias University since past 8 years. His area of interest includes formulation optimization, nanoformulation, targeted drug delivery, localized drug delivery and characterization of natural polymers as pharmaceutical excipients. He has authored more than 200 research/review papers for national/international journals of repute. He has 58 patents (19 grants, 38 published, 1 filed) and publications in reputed National and International journals with total of 191 cumulative impact factor. He has also received an Outstanding Reviewer award from Elsevier. He has authored/edited/editing 46 books (Wiley, CRC Press/Taylor and Francis, Springer, River Publisher, IOP publishing and OMICS publication) and authored 31 book chapters. His name has included in word's top 2% scientist list for the year 2020 and 2021 by Elsevier BV and Stanford University. He is Reviewer/Editor/Editorial board member of more than 50 national and international journals of repute. He has invited as author for "Atlas of Science" and pharma magazine dealing with industry (B2B) "Ingredient south Asia Magazines".

Prof. Sonali Sundram completed B. Pharm & M. Pharm (Pharmacology) from AKTU, Lucknow. She has worked as research scientist in project of ICMR in King George's Medical University, Lucknow after that she has joined BBDNIIT and currently she is working in Galgotias university, Greater Noida. Her PhD (Pharmacy) work was in the area of Neurodegeneration and Nanoformulation. Her area of interest is neurodegeneration, clinical research, artificial intelligence. She has authored/edited/editing more than 15 books (Wiley, CRC Press/Taylor and Francis, IOP publishing, Apple Academic Press/Taylor and Francis, Springer Nature and River Publisher) She has attended as well organized more than 15 national and international seminar/conferences/workshop. She has more than 8 patents national and international in her credit. She has published six SCI indexed manuscripts (cumulative impact factor: 20.71) with reputed international publishers. She has delivered oral presentation in international conferences organized in different European countries.

Dr. Rishabha Malviya畢業於Uttar Pradesh Technical University的B. Pharmacy學位，並在Gautam Buddha Technical University的M. Pharmacy（藥劑學）獲得學位。他的博士學位（藥學）研究領域是新型配方開發技術。他擁有12年的研究經驗，目前在Galgotias大學醫學與聯合科學學院藥學系擔任副教授，已經有8年的工作經驗。他的研究興趣包括配方優化、納米配方、靶向藥物傳遞、局部藥物傳遞以及天然高分子作為藥用輔料的特性研究。他已經為國內外知名期刊撰寫/審查了200多篇研究/綜述論文。他擁有58項專利（19項授權、38項發表、1項申請中）和在國內外知名期刊上發表的論文，總共有191個累計影響因子。他還曾獲得Elsevier的優秀審稿人獎。他已經編寫/編輯/正在編輯46本書籍（Wiley、CRC Press/Taylor and Francis、Springer、River Publisher、IOP publishing和OMICS publication），並撰寫了31篇書籍章節。他的名字被Elsevier BV和斯坦福大學列入2020年和2021年全球前2%科學家名單。他是50多家國內外知名期刊的審稿人/編輯/編委會成員。他還被邀請為《科學地圖》和處理行業（B2B）的藥品雜誌《Ingredient south Asia Magazines》撰寫文章。

Prof. Sonali Sundram畢業於AKTU的B. Pharm和M. Pharm（藥理學）學位。她曾在King George's Medical University的ICMR項目中擔任研究科學家，之後加入了BBDNIIT，目前在Greater Noida的Galgotias大學工作。她的博士學位（藥學）研究領域是神經退化和納米配方。她的研究興趣包括神經退化、臨床研究和人工智能。她已經編寫/編輯/正在編輯超過15本書籍（Wiley、CRC Press/Taylor and Francis、IOP publishing、Apple Academic Press/Taylor and Francis、Springer Nature和River Publisher）。她參加並組織了超過15個國內外研討會/會議/研討會。她在國內外擁有8項專利。她在知名國際出版商發表了六篇SCI索引論文（累計影響因子：20.71）。她在不同歐洲國家舉辦的國際會議上進行了口頭報告。