Key result
A preliminary analysis of the recent literature indicates how the inherent characteristics of blockchain can enhance or hinder five essential quality requirements in healthcare systems.
Why the study?
Healthcare produces large amounts of data requiring security and quality preservation, and blockchain has gained attention to secure records, but its impact on healthcare quality requirements needed investigation.
This paper provides a preliminary analysis of how blockchain technology impacts quality requirements in healthcare systems.
Blockchain may shape healthcare quality requirements; leaves open empirical validation before clinical use.
Healthcare is a data-intensive domain, once a considerable amount of data is daily produced due to monitoring patients, managing identities, producing medical records and processing medical insurance claims. Hence, security, besides other quality requirements, is prominent to preserve the confidentiality and integrity of such data. Blockchain technology has received attention as a mean to support secure transactions and records, including in the healthcare domain. The main contribution of this paper is providing preliminary results of an investigation on the recent literature on how the inherent characteristics of blockchain can enhance or hinder particular quality requirements in healthcare systems. We provide a preliminary analysis of five essential quality requirements for healthcare domain, besides pointing for advances that must still be achieved.
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Kassab et al. (2019) conducted a review in Healthcare systems. Blockchain technology was evaluated on Quality requirements. A preliminary analysis of the recent literature indicates how the inherent characteristics of blockchain can enhance or hinder five essential quality requirements in healthcare systems.
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