Leveraging Blockchain Technology for Effective Healthcare Solutions: Requirements, Architecture, Applications and Recent Advances

Abstract

Blockchain technology is a very high powered technology that encounters a vast variety of features. For cloud-edge systems to do data integrity audits blockchain is an authentic tool. Using blockchain hospitals can become nodes to put up distributed ledger that make sure the combat collusion and tamper resistance. It emphasize the role of blockchain in ensuring data integrity, managing access, data security and privacy based on the context of healthcare. Patient histories, healthcare management, efficient data records, access to healthcare datasets that are facilitates by blockchain in the healthcare sector. This paper examines the relation between healthcare sector and blockchain technology that shows features and recent advances. This paper concludes the major role of blockchain in the healthcare sector in developing a well-organized and secured health records.