Securing Healthcare 5.0: A Review of Applications, Security Challenges, and Future Perspectives

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Year : 2025 | Volume : 12 | Issue : 02 | Page : 22 36
    By

    Mahesh B. Sonje,

  • Sandip S. Patil,

  1. Research Scholar, Department of Computer Engineering, S.S.B.T. COE, Jalgaon, Maharashtra, India
  2. Associate Professor, Department of Computer Engineering, S.S.B.T. COE, Jalgaon, Maharashtra, India

Abstract

Healthcare 5.0 represents a revolutionary shift in the healthcare sector, focusing on individualized, patient-centric care through the integration of different cutting-edge technologies such as internet of things, artificial intelligence, big data analytics, blockchain, and cloud computing to enable healthcare services such as real-time health monitoring, personalized treatments, and access to expert advice regardless of geographic barriers. Potentially, Healthcare 5.0 supports more engaged and effective care and help through a focus on the patient as a person. This change also brings more security risks which provide such opportunities as vulnerabilities that can lead to data leakage, unauthorized access, and manipulation of significant medical information. This paper presents a safety security framework for enforcing Healthcare 5.0, by providing the fundamental use cases, and assessment of the security requirement and threats associated with each use case. We review the current strategies regarding their effectiveness and relevance in Healthcare 5.0, as well as discussing the possibility of adopting them. This paper explores emergent research directions that would inform the creation of robust and secure networks to protect the patients’ information in a rapidly interconnected healthcare context to strengthen the security measures while improving healthcare accessibility and quality through innovative technologies to enhance patient care, data sharing and organizational management while ensuring the security.

Keywords: Healthcare 5.0, internet of things (IoT), artificial intelligence, cyber security, blockchain

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How to cite this article:
Mahesh B. Sonje, Sandip S. Patil. Securing Healthcare 5.0: A Review of Applications, Security Challenges, and Future Perspectives. Journal of Software Engineering Tools & Technology Trends. 2025; 12(02):22-36.
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Mahesh B. Sonje, Sandip S. Patil. Securing Healthcare 5.0: A Review of Applications, Security Challenges, and Future Perspectives. Journal of Software Engineering Tools & Technology Trends. 2025; 12(02):22-36. Available from: https://journals.stmjournals.com/josettt/article=2025/view=207265


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Volume 12
Issue 02
Received 17/02/2025
Accepted 10/03/2025
Published 15/04/2025
Publication Time 57 Days
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