[AISWorld] Call for Papers: Blockchain in Healthcare: The Past, the Present and the Future @MDPI Information

[Horst Treiblmaier]

Dear Colleagues,

The MDPI journal Information invites submissions for a Special Issue entitled 'Blockchain in Healthcare: The Past, the Present and the Future'. The application of blockchain technologies in the healthcare system has gained substantial interest in recent years. Researchers have identified numerous areas in which distributed ledger technology (including blockchain) can help to make the current medical system more effective and efficient. These include topics such as security, disintermediation, contact tracing, patients' self-management of data, home monitoring, interoperability, and medical products supply chain. However, research also highlights numerous challenges that need to be overcome, including the complexity of introducing blockchain-based applications, incumbents’ resistance to change the current system, regulatory concerns, and privacy threats.

The aim of this Special Issue is to provide a broad forum for the discussion of timely topics surrounding blockchain application in healthcare. Due to the rapidly evolving technical and legal environments in which blockchain is being implemented and regulated, there is a need to update published research in this area. We invite conceptual papers, design science research, literature reviews, case studies, as well as empirical qualitative and quantitative studies that contribute new knowledge to the field.

Potential topics may include, but are not limited to:
*) Practical use cases for blockchain in healthcare
*) Blockchain adoption strategies and barriers in healthcare
*) Impact of blockchain solutions on various stakeholders including governments
*) Privacy and security issues of electronic health records (EHRs) and patient generated data (PGD)
*) Overview of current research clusters in blockchain and healthcare
*) Ethical issues of blockchain in healthcare
*) Token economics in healthcare
*) Technical and social issues related to blockchain governance
*) Examples of blockchain use for medical products and pharmaceutical supply chain
*) Blockchain education and workforce implications for healthcare professionals
Guest Editor name

Dr. Horst Treiblmaier
Modul University Vienna

Dr. Anjum Khurshid
Harvard Medical School

Dr. Rami Alkhudary
Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2023

Special Issue Information
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