Название: Recent Advances in Blockchain Technology: Real-world Applications
Автор: Sandeep Kumar Panda, Vaibhav Mishra, Sujata Priyambada Dash
Издательство: Springer
Год: 2023
Страниц: 334
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true), epub
Размер: 23.8 MB

This book provides insights on blockchain technology and its applications in real-world business, supply chain, health care, education, HRM, retail, logistics and transport industries. This book grants a comprehensive understanding of how this technology is functioning within modern real-world applications and how it can influence the future of the real-world applications in industry. The chapters cover the case study, applications of blockchain, benefits and challenges, disruptive innovations in real-world applications, privacy and security concerns, and the recent trends of blockchain in real-world applications. It is ideally intended for marketers, advertisers, brand managers, executives, managers, IT specialists and consultants, researchers, businesses, practitioners, stakeholders, academicians, and students interested in blockchain technology and its role in supply chain, health care, education, HRM, retail, logistics and transport industries.

To meet the objectives, this book contains 15 chapters contributed by accomplished writers as follows:

Chapter 1
The chapter begins with defining blockchain, including its characteristics, benefits, types, recent, and future trends, in order to improve grasp of this new technology. The purpose of this chapter is to illustrate the key characteristics and benefits of blockchain technology when used in conjunction with supply chain, healthcare, tourism, education, human resource, space, and finance industry. The study attempts to make propositions about how technology will evolve and impact the industry.

Chapter 2
This chapter elaborates the largest cryptocurrency created ever in the trade market, Bitcoin: Beginning of the Cryptocurrency Era, A Case study. This chapters consists of case study as well as teaching notes. This case illuminates the distinction between blockchain and bitcoin, working model of Bitcoin, business benefits, and challenges of Bitcoin, how Bitcoin taking over the mainstream process and reformation of ecommerce using Bitcoin.

Chapter 3
This chapter presents the study on different characteristics and the importance of blockchain technology in varied HR practices.

Chapter 4
This chapter introduced blockchain technology in cloud environments to securely transfer EHR data between authorized entities. Blockchain technology is important in such cases because it provides data-ledger-based features that can be distributed to all companies on the network.

Chapter 5
This chapter intends to provide a preliminary information of metaverse and blockchain and how these two technologies can be related to each other. The impact of blockchain technologies on metaverse is also discussed in brief...

Contents:
1. An Introduction to Blockchain Technology: Recent Trends
2. Bitcoin: Beginning of the Cryptocurrency Era
3. HR Digital Transformation: Blockchain for Business
4. Securing Electronic Health Record System in Cloud Environment Using Blockchain Technology
5. Blockchain: The Foundation of Trust in Metaverse
6. Survey on Blockchain Technology and Security Facilities in Online Education
7. A Govern Chain—Integration of Government Function with Blockchain Technology
8. Blockchain in Healthcare: A Review
9. Blockchain: A Study of New Business Model
10. Understanding the Blockchain Technology Adoption in Transportation Management: Application in Trucking Industry
11. MediBlock: A Pervasive Way to Create Healthcare Value in Secured Manner for Personalized Care
12. Application of Blockchain Technology in Human Resource Management
13. P2P-The Key Behind Regulatory Framework of DeFi Services
14. An Overview of Blockchain Technology and Its Adoption in Industry
15. A Smart Contract-Based Framework for Value Addition in Retail Market