Leveraging blockchain in medical tourism value chain
Balasubramanian, Sreejith 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0475-7305, Ajayan, Shalini and Paris, Cody Morris ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0339-2471
(2022)
Leveraging blockchain in medical tourism value chain.
Stienmetz, Jason L., Ferrer-Rosell, Berta and Massimo, David, eds.
Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 2022: Proceedings of the ENTER 2022 eTourism Conference, January 11-14, 2022.
In: 29th Annual International eTourism Conference ENTER22, 11-14 Jan 2022, Nankai University, China [Online].
pbk-ISBN 9783030947507, e-ISBN 9783030947514.
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(doi:10.1007/978-3-030-94751-4_8)
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Abstract
There are significant challenges facing the medical tourism industry: privacy and transparency concerns, lack of access to centralized medical records, fraudulent practices, opportunistic behavior of intermediaries, foreign currency risks, and contractual/legal issues. While blockchain technology has immense potential to address the industry’s inherent challenges and inefficiencies, the current understanding of blockchain application in medical tourism is fragmented. Through a pragmatic review of the literature, this study explores the blockchain applications and benefits for medical tourists across the stages of the medical tourism value chain, and in the process, proposes a meaningful and managerially relevant blockchain framework for medical tourism. The findings and the proposed novel framework to guide policy interventions and support mechanisms to take advantage of the full opportunities of blockchain in medical tourism.
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| Research Areas: | A. > Business School |
| Item ID: | 35607 |
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| Date Deposited: | 16 Aug 2022 10:41 |
| Last Modified: | 24 Oct 2022 22:40 |
| URI: | https://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/id/eprint/35607 |
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