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In the current healthcare system, it's a common practice to refer patients from one medical practitioner to another to complete his/her treatment procedure. This process is known as a referral. Currently in Sri Lanka due to a lack of a well-organized referral system has led to many shortcomings in the health sector. These include misplacement of re...
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... For dentistry as well as the general healthcare sector with significant data ownership, privacy and security concerns, as all patients' data are now kept incorruptible, private and secure, and there is a transparent log of how and when healthcare providers access those data, implementing blockchain in dentistry could overcome many existing difficulties and promote more future advancements. For instance, it can be utilised to balance the privacy and accessibility of electronic health records (EHRs) [31]; a blockchain has the capability of making healthcare-related data even more secure and transparent than today [17]. However, it is of note that only a few studies have been conducted on its potential uses, and dental professionals are not yet familiar with this technology. ...
... Additionally, filling out dental records and observing and writing down every patient's exact condition, including oral, dental, etc, can be a long and challenging issue for dentists, leading to ineffective consultations and prolonged treatment sessions. There is also a possibility for patients who are referred from one dentist to another to be misdiagnosed [31]. Blockchain technology made it possible to minimize dental session time, It is of note that this framework is not a product of reviewing the existing blockchain in dentistry literature due to the amount of research being very limited and not all possible areas of applications being identified. ...
... Additionally, filling out dental records and observing and writing down every patient's exact condition, including oral, dental, etc, can be a long and challenging issue for dentists, leading to ineffective consultations and prolonged treatment sessions. There is also a possibility for patients who are referred from one dentist to another to be misdiagnosed [31]. Blockchain technology made it possible to minimize dental session time, decrease trouble for both parties and make it possible to deliver dental service with more cognizance and attention. ...
Multitudinous health data are continually being produced as our activities, including medicine, evolve into the digital age where data plays a decisive role. Challenges come along as well, concerning the collection, secure storage, verification and secure access to the continuously growing data at such a broad scale before valuable information can be extracted to contribute to medical advancement nowadays. With the decentralization feature, huge successes of blockchain technology in overcoming similar challenges in the finance and cryptocurrency sector brought us the confidence to investigate and reveal its immeasurable potential for the health sector, specifically in dentistry. Dentistry is an important area of healthcare, but there is relatively little research focusing on its interactions with blockchain technology. Given the limited amount of existing research on this specific subject, this paper focuses on blockchain in dentistry and aims to provide a conceptual framework for the possible applications of blockchain in dentistry. The framework is organised by different areas of dentistry operations so that dental professionals can easily refer to and identify areas of interest. This contributes to increasing the awareness of blockchain technology among dental professionals and promoting blockchain-empowered revolutions in dentistry. This paper also discusses how blockchain fits alongside other emerging technologies, the challenges that have to be overcome to maximise the functionality and efficiency of this technology, as well as future research directions concerning blockchain implementations in the dental industry.
