Blockchain and Digital Twin for Smart Hospitals

Blockchain and Digital Twins for Smart Healthcare describes the role of blockchain and digital twins in smart healthcare, covering the ecosystem of the Internet of Medical Things, how data can be gathered using a sensor network, which is securely stored, updated, and managed with blockchain for efficient and private medical data exchange. Medical data is collected real-time from devices and systems in smart hospitals: the internet of medical things. This data is integrated to provide insight from the analytics or machine learning software using digital twins. Security and transparency are brought through a combination of digital twin and blockchain technologies.

• Provides the fundamentals of blockchain, digital twins, and IoMT
• Presents a useful guide for readers on the new applications of blockchain, the medical digital twin, and IoMT
• Explores how blockchain and digital twins can be used in the IoMT, smart hospitals, and for future healthcare services