Cybersecurity Threats and Mitigation Strategies in Blockchain Healthcare
Akanksha Sharma, Ashish Verma, Sunita Sunita, Akhil Sharma, Shilpa Thukral, Shaweta Sharma · 2025
Blockchain technologies have changed healthcare’s security and handling of medical data. Still, given its many advantages, the blockchain adoption process carries various cybersecurity concerns that might have disastrous results for patients and healthcare practitioners. Cybersecurity concerns in blockchain healthcare systems and their solutions are covered in this chapter. The chapter opens with an awareness of the need to avoid health information and acknowledge the damage resulting from a security breach. Key ideas of cyberattacks in healthcare are introduced in the second section. It addresses the likely effects of these kinds of cyberattacks on the healthcare industry, stressing what is regarded as a disturbance of services, loss of sensitive patient information, and financial consequences. It underlines the critical need for a robust cybersecurity management system in view of blockchain technology and suggests some high-level mitigating strategies. The chapter ends with prospective future cybersecurity developments in blockchain healthcare, delving into ideas for upcoming risks and threats, the increase of telehealth usage, and how future technologies may affect healthcare cyber security. It also emphasises the need for training and awareness programs to improve security among healthcare personnel.