Application of ‘Blockchain Plus Public Health’

Abstract

On October 25, 2019, senior Chinese officials conveyed the significance of blockchain to all sectors of society through the 18 th Collective Study of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. Blockchain is the distributed ledger that maintains a growing list of chronological blocks linked by cryptographic techniques. It is a combined innovation of peer-to-peer networks, cryptography, consensus protocols, smart contracts, etc., which offers tamper-resistance and traceability characteristics to solve trust issues (1-2).