Metaverse in Healthcare Integrated with Explainable AI and Blockchain: Enabling Immersiveness, Ensuring Trust, and Providing Patient Data Security

Healthcare has always benefited greatly from automation and digitization. It accepts all cutting-edge technologies. The globe has recently seen the rise in popularity of the metaverse, a new digital technology. With an immersive experience, metaverse has as ability to effortlessly give patients and medical professionals a wide range of health services. This article suggests using blockchain technology with artificial intelligence in metaverse to provide patients a more realistic, quicker, and safer experience while receiving healthcare online. The essence of our suggested architecture is as follows. The metaverse’s, patient’s as well as the doctor’s environment are the three environments that comprise this system. Blockchain technology helps to create a metaverse environment where patients and clinicians communicate while protecting patient privacy, security, and safety. The centerpiece of our suggested design is the environment of metaverse. Avatars are mediums for physicians, patients, and nurse representations in metaverse environment. These individuals join this environment via blockchain registration. These data are used by explainable artificial intelligence also called XAI algorithms to predict and diagnose illnesses. When it comes to the diagnosis and prognosis of illnesses, the GradCAM as well as LIME techniques of XAI provide confidence, explainability, interpretability, and transparency via logical reasoning. Thus, our suggested architecture provides openness and confidence for both illness detection and patient data protection. We also looked at the metaverse’s key technologies.