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Blockchain Technology for Healthcare Record Management

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Pervasive Healthcare

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The last decade has seen the rise of innovations such as smart computers, wearable devices, smartphones, digital cameras, robots, social media networks, and ICT advancements in day-to-day life, leading to the digitization of numerous activities. Advances in trending technologies have contributed to their adaptation in every part of human’s daily routine. Almost all healthcare-associated domains are now adapting to eHealth. Health professionals have been able to collect medical records, exchange medical data through a network of professionals and patients, provide healthcare through digital media, and track various health-related events, diseases, and disease outbreaks through a range of technologies, such as social media sites, applications, smartphones, and smart objects. This has resulted in an ample amount of knowledge related to patients that is created and needs to be handled effectively for better results. Although big data is the obvious option to handle this vast data collection, data protection and security for public health data is a prime concern. A blockchain is known as a record database located in a distributed personal computer network called nodes. In particular, it is a mutual, permanent record of peer-to-peer transactions constructed from linked blocks of transactions and stored in a digital ledger. No single person owns it, i.e., it is decentralized. The healthcare sector is one of the sectors looking to embrace the blockchain. This chapter aims to reflect the numerous facts leading to the introduction of blockchain technology in general and electronic medical record management of healthcare in particular. The chapter will study the various blockchain implementation frameworks.

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    Mohammad Faisal, Tasneem Ahmed & Nashra Javed

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Faisal, M., Sadia, H., Ahmed, T., Javed, N. (2022). Blockchain Technology for Healthcare Record Management. In: Husain, M.S., Adnan, M.H.B.M., Khan, M.Z., Shukla, S., Khan, F.U. (eds) Pervasive Healthcare. EAI/Springer Innovations in Communication and Computing. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77746-3_17

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