Blockchain in Healthcare

Dr. Stanislaw P. Stawicki is Professor of Surgery and Chair, Department of Research and Innovation at St Luke's University Health Network in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA. A specialist in General Surgery, Acute Care Surgery, and Surgical Critical Care, he co-authored >650 scholarly works, including >25 books. In addition to national and international medical leadership roles, he is a member of numerous editorial boards. His areas of expertise include blockchain technology in healthcare, medical innovation, patient safety, academic leadership, medical education and mentorship, traumatology, critical care, injury prevention, and sonography.

1. Introductory chapter: Early applications and evolution of blockchain implementations in medicine.- 2. Can Blockchain Technology Change Contemporary Medicine As It Is Currently Understood?.- 3. The Current State of Healthcare Information Exchange (HIE) and Proposing a Blockchain HIE Infrastructure.- 4. An amalgamation of blockchain and connected health for combating COVID-19.- 5. Applications of Blockchain Technology in the COVID-19 Era. 6. Distributed Ledgers and Immunity Passports:  The Intersection of Clinical Medicine and Digital Technology.- 7. Digital Identity, Computational Reliabilism, and the Future of IOMT: Epistemic  Reasoning and The Role of Blockchain in Removing Human Tampering from Pharmacovigilance Decision Making.- 8.  Potential implementations of blockchain technology in patient safety: A high-level overview.- 9. Blockchain in Medical Education.- 10. Blockchain in Education: Linking Competency Assessment with Credentialing.- 11. Optimizing Blockchain Technology in Academic Medicine.- 12. Distributed Research Networks.- 13. Use of Blockchain Technology for Implantable Medical Device Tracking.-  14. Application of Blockchain Technology in Healthcare Supply Chains.