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K. Suganthi, Apratim Shukla, Mayank K. Tolani, Swapnil Mishra, Abhishek Thazhethe Kalathil, R. Manojkumar · Advances in computational intelligence and robotics book series · 2022
Blockchain technology generally is associated with financial applications where it serves the role of maintaining records. However, such a tamper-resistant distributed ledger can be used for fashioning applications in the healthcare domain. Harnessing the potential of blockchain as a data store for health records would ensure that they would be secure as multiple copies of them are preserved in a decentralized manner to ensure data redundancy and security. With this technology in effect, the medical sector could leverage blockchain tech to allow any authorized hospitals to securely communicate, share information/records independent from a central figure. Information shared would only contain relevant data related to the query between stakeholders with appropriate permission attached to their roles. This chapter delineates the architecture of such a system explaining its benefits and limitations as a medical data-storage architecture.