Using Blockchain Technology for Continuing Medical Education Credits System
Jash Rathod, Ashutosh Gupta, Dhiren Patel · 2020
In recent years, the rapid development of Blockchain Technology has found its applications in sectors like Finance, Healthcare, Supply Chain Management, Internet of Things (IoT), and many more. In this paper, we propose use of Blockchain to the system of accreditation of Continuing Medical Evaluation (CME) credits and a physician's Medical Licence Renewal. To be able to practice medicine, a physician needs to possess a legitimate licence approved by a verified Medical Council and for this, certain credit hours need to be earned. CME is a global education system that aims to continually upgrade the knowledge of physicians with the advancements made in the medical domain. By including the highly robust features of blockchain like security, decentralization, and immutability in the existing system of CME Credits, many of the extant problems can be uprooted and a system can be established. This work aims at providing an Ethereum-based solution to enhance the existing CME Credits system by providing an automated credits accreditation and medical licence renewal system.