Purpose: The present papermainly focuses to identify various applications of blockchain technology and challenges faced at blockchain adoption in healthcare industry.

Design/Methodology: This paper is based on qualitative research. This paper relies on secondary data from the public domain including research paper and article insights.

Findings: The paper’s finding provides support for blockchain technology applications in healthcare industry such as remote monitoring, electronic health record, clinical research etc. This study also explains the challenges faced during blockchain technology adoption.

Originality/Value: This paper contributes an original analysis of the applications as well as challenges faced at adoption of blockchain technology in healthcare industry.

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Keywords: Blockchain, Distributed ledger Technology, Healthcare, Medical Data.