1st Edition

Creating Smart Healthcare with Blockchain and Advanced Digital Technology

Edited By Rishabha Malviya, Sonali Sundram Copyright 2025
460 Pages 68 B/W Illustrations
by Apple Academic Press

460 Pages 68 B/W Illustrations
by Apple Academic Press

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,... Read more

1. Potential of Blockchain Technology for the Healthcare Domain

Shailendra Singh Bhadauria, Aditi Chaudhary, and Sirisha Pingali

2. Blockchain: A New Model for Health Information Exchanges

Sushma Yadav, Avinash Tripathi, Shibu Das, Manish Yadav, and Shivkanya Fuloria

3. Potential of Blockchain Technology in Tracking Disease and Pandemics

Sunita Panchawat, Neeraj Sharma, Pradeep Kumar Jaiswal, and Deepika Bairagee

4. Opportunities and Challenges of Blockchain Technology in Disease Outbreak Tracking

Gera Jemimah, B. Maheshwari, Gsn Koteswara Rao, N. Raghavendra Naveen, Shams Aaghaz, Avsss Gupta, and Surya Kovvasu

5. Blockchain Role in Medical Supply Chain Management

Shashimala Tiwari

6. Impact of Blockchain in Drug Traceability

Mandeep Singh, Ruhul Amin Choudhury, and Vasudeva Kilaru

7. Patient Selection and Treatment Strategies Using Computational Machine Analysis

Anjali Gupta, Neha Sharma, and Pavan Kumar Arya Padarthi

8. Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare to Improve the Quality of Life of the Elderly

Gayatri Prajapati and Khwairakpam Sharmila

9. Affordable Healthcare: The Promise of Blockchain

Abhitav Tiwari, Mallika Tamminana, Shalini Perada, B. Srividya, Shivlal Yadav, Ankita Moharana, and Dhanalekshmi U. Meenakshi

10. Smart Contracts: Medical Insurance Contracts for Patient

Kamlesh Kumar Raghuvanshi, Subodh Kumar, Sushil Kumar, and Sunil Kumar

11. Remote Patient Monitoring with Blockchain: Powerful and Flexible Patient Observation Systems

Shweta Kumari, Vikash Kumar, Jyotirmaya Sahoo, Manjeet Kumar, Kamal Dua, and Sudhanshu Mishra

12. Secure Data Transmission Based on Deep Q-Learning Architecture with an Internet of Things Module in Healthcare Applications

B. Sathiyaprasad and B. Satheesh Kumar

13. A Heterogeneous Graph-Based E-Health Solution in Cloud Computing with Semi-Supervision During Pandemic Periods

Antony Xavier Branson, Sai Shanmuga Raja, Sendilvelan Subramanian, Larissa R. Sassykova, Francis Jency X., Geetha Soman, Kanya Nataraj, and Mohandoss Sundaram

14. Autonomous Robots: A Disruptive Technology in the Healthcare Sector

Bikash Ranjan Jena, Gsn Koteswara Rao, Naga Jogayya Kothakota, Roja Rani Budha, L. Srinivas, J. Rajkumar, and Surya Kovvasu

15. Challenges to Digital Transformation in the Healthcare Industry

Prachi Pachuary, Yashraj Sharma, Sharda Shambhakar, Sudhanshu Mishra, and Palak Gupta

Biography

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.