Application of Blockchain Technology in the Healthcare System
Jyotika Kamble, Rishav Kumar, Siri Chandana, Mogathapalli Sri Koushik, Ganga Rama Koteswara Rao, T. Vignesh · 2023
Healthcare is a sector that generates a large of amount data. This hefty data contains medical data related to patients and electronic health records of a patient, this data is becoming more vulnerable to Cybercriminals in the dark web. All this data is being exposed in the dark web which results in the vulnerability of healthcare industry. In order to protect the data, there a lot of techniques and methodologies that are chosen, which turned out be more expensive in terms of maintaining them. In the healthcare sector, where it has greatly The adoption of blockchain technology is going through a conceptual transformation in terms of increased effectiveness, access control, technological innovation, privacy protection, and security of data management processes transformation. In blockchain technology, out of three architectures, the private network, which ensures closed network and enable better security will be selected. The patient can access data with the help of private key.