Table 3. Real-World Use Cases in Healthcare and Biomedical Sciences.
Issue to Address | SN | Blockchain Supported Use Case |
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Counter Prescription Drug Fraud | 1) 2) 3) |
Nuco, HealthChain RX Scalamed [26] |
Supply Chain Intervention | 4) | Pharmacosurveillance Blockchain System[40] |
Biomedical Knowledge Retrieval | 5) | A Blockchain-Based Notarization Service [44] |
Connect Dental Providers | 6) | Dentacoin [26] |
Collect Patient Forms | 7) | Time-stamping Patients’ Consent [38] |
Health Information Interoperability | 8) | FHIRChain[31] |
Patient-Centric Data | 9) 10) 11) |
Medicalchain [26] Healthcare Data Gateway [35] Delloitte’s Prescrypt [17] |
Patient wearable medical devices | 12) 13) |
Wearable Embedded Devices [36] |
Access Shared Genomics Data | 14) 15) |
Cancer Gene Trust CrypDist Project [45] |
Commercial Genomic Data Distribution | 16) 17) |
Gene-chain Zenome [45] |
Integrate Genomic Data Analysis | 18) 19) |
Nebula Genomics[45] |
Decentralize the Web | 20) | InterPlanetary File System [45] |