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The Role of Digital Transformation in Healthcare: A Sustainability Perspective, Design and Integration Challenges, Security and Privacy Challenges, Blockchain Technology, Applications, Future Research Directions
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: Received: 10 August 2023 / Approved: 10 August 2023 / Online: 10 August 2023 (15:05:49 CEST)
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: Received: 17 September 2023 / Approved: 18 September 2023 / Online: 19 September 2023 (15:31:09 CEST)
How to cite:
Hameed, F.; Hameed, K. The Role of Digital Transformation in Healthcare: A Sustainability Perspective, Design and Integration Challenges, Security and Privacy Challenges, Blockchain Technology, Applications, Future Research Directions. Preprints2023, 2023080867. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202308.0867.v1
Hameed, F.; Hameed, K. The Role of Digital Transformation in Healthcare: A Sustainability Perspective, Design and Integration Challenges, Security and Privacy Challenges, Blockchain Technology, Applications, Future Research Directions. Preprints 2023, 2023080867. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202308.0867.v1
Hameed, F.; Hameed, K. The Role of Digital Transformation in Healthcare: A Sustainability Perspective, Design and Integration Challenges, Security and Privacy Challenges, Blockchain Technology, Applications, Future Research Directions. Preprints2023, 2023080867. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202308.0867.v1
APA Style
Hameed, F., & Hameed, K. (2023). The Role of Digital Transformation in Healthcare: A Sustainability Perspective, Design and Integration Challenges, Security and Privacy Challenges, Blockchain Technology, Applications, Future Research Directions. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202308.0867.v1
Chicago/Turabian Style
Hameed, F. and Khizar Hameed. 2023 "The Role of Digital Transformation in Healthcare: A Sustainability Perspective, Design and Integration Challenges, Security and Privacy Challenges, Blockchain Technology, Applications, Future Research Directions" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202308.0867.v1
Abstract
This study presents a detailed comparison of existing studies, mainly focusing on integrating ICT technologies in healthcare, an important sustainable development goal (SDG), in terms of sustainable aspects, security and privacy challenges, design and integration challenges, E-health-related applications, and future directions. We also present an overview of the need for digital transformation in healthcare, discuss its significant components, highlight E-health’s importance and benefits, explore its integration and design challenges and categorise the security and privacy challenges. Next, we present an in-depth discussion on the role of Blockchain technology in E-health, discussing Blockchain technology and its characteristics, highlighting its benefits, and describing the possible types of Blockchain-based E-health use cases. Furthermore, we discuss the positive and negative impact of ICT integration along with identifying open issues and challenges of integrating ICT technologies into the healthcare systems and discuss future research directions, which provide the strength for researchers to address the issues in future solutions.
Keywords
sustainability; sustainable development goal; healthcare; information and communication technology; blockchain; security and privacy; design goal; society; environmental; financial)
Subject
Business, Economics and Management, Other
Copyright:
This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
