Leveraging Blockchain for Secure and Transparent Healthcare Data Management: Enhancing Patient Privacy and Interoperability in Medical Systems
Keywords:
Blockchain, Patient data management, Patient privacy, Transparency, Smart contract, Healthcare information systemsAbstract
The healthcare sector is undergoing significant digital innovation, but issues with data security, patient interoperability privacy, persist. and Received 02 May 2025 Revised 26 June, 2025 Accepted 29 June. 2025 Blockchain technology, with its decentralized, transparent, and immutable nature, offers a potential solution. This study explores blockchain's applicability in addressing healthcare data management limitations, focusing on patient privacy protection and cross-hospital interoperability. Our solution utilizes blockchain to provide a secure data repository, empower patients with data access permissions, and enable efficient data sharing. The analysis highlights blockchain's benefits in mitigating data breaches and optimizing data sharing, while also addressing regulatory and technological challenges. A roadmap for successful implementation is presented, demonstrating blockchain's potential to enhance healthcare data handling. By leveraging blockchain technology, we can create a more secure, efficient, and patient-centric healthcare system. This study contributes to the growing body of research on blockchain's applications in healthcare, highlighting its potential for transformative impact.
Downloads
Published
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2025 Faran Ali, Asmatullah
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Submission of an original manuscript to the Journal will be taken to mean that it represents original work not previously published, that it is not being considered elsewhere for publication. And if accepted for publication, it will be published in print and online and it will not be published elsewhere.
The journal main policy reflects in its stance that the publication of scholarly research is exclusively meant to disseminate knowledge and not-for-purposes.
Copyright Statment
Sarhad Journal of Management Sciences is published by Sarhad University of Science and Information Technology Peshawar. This copyright statement entails that all contents (including text, tables, graphs, images, or any materials that is part and parcel of a research article submitted to the journal) belong to/ property of the person who owned it prior to submission this journal. Publication of the submitted article will not affect the ownership of copyright of the subject materials. SJMS and its users benefit from a general licence over all content submitted under a Creative Commons CC-BY licence over all content. However, content which is not part of the submitted article, is the property of SJMS. In a nutshell, the combination of all content on the SJMS website, the look and feel of the website, is the property of Sarhad University of Science and Information Technology Peshawar.
As an author or contributor, you grant permission to others to reproduce your articles, including any graphics and third-party materials supplied by you, in accordance with the SJMS Terms and Conditions. The licence granted to third parties over all contents of each article, including third-party elements, is a Creative Commons Attribution ("CC BY") licence. The current version is CC-BY, version 4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), and the licence will automatically be updated as and when updated by the Creative Commons organisation.
You may include a requirement to reproduce copyright notices but you may not restrict the right to reproduce the entire article, including third-party graphics. This means that you must obtain any necessary third-party consents and permissions to reproduce third-party materials in your articles submitted to SJMS.
Copyright Statement updated September 13, 2022.
