The Role of Digital Transformation in Healthcare: A Sustainability Perspective, Design and Integration Challenges, Security and Privacy Challenges, Blockchain Technology, Applications, Future Research Directions
Faisal Hameed, Khizar Hameed · Preprints.org · 2023
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.