Details the basic concepts of blockchain in relation to healthcare sector and offers solutions for enhanced healthcare services, management, and administration. Deals with the use of blockchain in remotely monitoring patients, in creating medical contracts, in enhancing data transmission security and more.

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.

1. Potential of Blockchain Technology for the Healthcare Domain 2. Blockchain: A New Model for Health Information Exchanges 3. Potential of Blockchain Technology in Tracking Disease and Pandemics 4. Opportunities and Challenges of Blockchain Technology in Disease Outbreak Tracking 5. Blockchain Role in Medical Supply Chain Management 6. Impact of Blockchain in Drug Traceability 7. Patient Selection and Treatment Strategies Using Computational Machine Analysis 8. Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare to Improve the Quality of Life of the Elderly 9. Affordable Healthcare: The Promise of Blockchain 10. Smart Contracts: Medical Insurance Contracts for Patient 11. Remote Patient Monitoring with Blockchain: Powerful and Flexible Patient Observation Systems 12. Secure Data Transmission Based on Deep Q-Learning Architecture with an Internet of Things Module in Healthcare Applications 13. A Heterogeneous Graph-Based E-Health Solution in Cloud Computing with Semi-Supervision During Pandemic Periods 14. Autonomous Robots: A Disruptive Technology in the Healthcare Sector 15. Challenges to Digital Transformation in the Healthcare Industry