Blockchain and Health System Strengthening: Study on Accessibility, Satisfaction and Patient’s Outcomes

Blockchain technology has become a revolutionary technology in healthcare, providing secure, transparent, confidential, and effective information-sharing mechanisms. The current research assesses the function of blockchain in making health systems more robust based on accessibility, patient outcomes, and satisfaction among healthcare administrators in India. A mixed-methods approach was applied for the intervention study with a combination of reliability testing, paired sample t-tests, ANOVA, and chi-square analyses across several blockchain applications, such as electronic medical records, tuberculosis data management, disease outbreak intervention, and wearable device integration. A pilot study with 22 participants recorded a Cronbach's alpha of 0.905, followed by a large-scale study with 178 participants recording a Cronbach's alpha of 0.902, establishing significant reliability. Results indicated substantial increases in administrators' views of blockchain's usefulness for sharing data securely (mean difference from 2.46 to 4.25, p < 0.001), disease surveillance (mean difference from 2.21 to 4.24, p < 0.001), and monitoring patients (mean difference from 2.35 to 3.98, p < 0.001). In conclusion, the research study proved that blockchain has the ability to enhance the quality of care in health systems through better accessibility to information with improved clinical patient outcomes among stakeholders such as patients, doctors, and healthcare administrators with satisfaction. However, the implementation of blockchain technologies should be considered with infrastructural limitations in health systems, such as primary, secondary, and tertiary healthcare.