Study on Implementation of Electronic Health Records using Blockchain Technology

Abstract

The recent technological innovation, Blockchain system is used to store data in a way that makes it difficult or impossible to edit, hack, or steal the data. It is an important part of technology with a decentralized architecture, distributed database, and continuously expanding records. There are many other technologies that are used along in blockchain. After doing critical study on many documents and understanding the technologies used by various studies, its necessities, and the issues encountered by it while building their respective models. The purpose of this study is to examine various tools and technologies that can be used in blockchain. Around 200 research works have been collected and up to 40 research studies are filtered. Research studies are filtered based on various factors. Some research studies were excluded based on title, few were excluded based on abstract and titles. This study is categorized in terms of Blockchain using Ethereum, Electronic Health records, Smart Contracts and Health monitoring.