Framework for Blockchain in Healthcare
Tanupriya Choudhury, Abhirup Khanna, Prasenjit Chatterjee, Jung‐Sup Um, Abhishek Bhattacharya · 2023
A Blockchain is a system for storing data in a manner so that it becomes impossible or extremely difficult to hack or change the system. Blockchain can also be understood as the set of connections which are interconnected to provide the connection in the entire architecture. This chapter presents the evolution and ownership aspects of Blockchain along with the working principles and the different methods in the healthcare ecosystem. Blockchain has been recognized as a development for addressing the distribution issues of information with the significant characterization towards data privacy and information security. The chapter highlights the state of art in terms of Blockchain development, personalization, applications and limitations within the healthcare sector. It describes a comprehensive interpretability in Blockchain with its open issues and future trends. Digital signatures, distributed networking and encoding techniques are the additional technologies and computational/mathematical techniques used in Blockchain technology to link the recordings of a database.