An Automated Approach towards Smart Healthcare with Blockchain and Smart Contracts

Abstract

Healthcare is one of the most crucial components of our lives since the value of our well-being is immeasurable. The current healthcare system, unfortunately, lacks quality service, accessibility and ease of use. Hence, this paper proposes a smart healthcare system to solve the existing issues of this system. Blockchain-based smart contracts are used to secure sensitive information and maintain the privacy aspect. Smart contracts create an environment in which a significant amount of operations become hands-free. This results in resource-friendliness because the system becomes less reliant on manual labor. The information stored is proven to be accurate, immutable and requires the approval of proper authorities in all cases. Along with this healthcare becomes secure, decentralized, automated and accessible to all.