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There are a few issues found because of the absence of traceability of transactions in healthcare services. Healthcare information split across numerous silos adversely influences research activities and administrations. There were no reported cases of about half of the clinical preliminaries. The expense of medication disclosure is ever-expanding, and unsatisfactory and fake medicines are as yet an enormous issue. Blockchain has the potential to address such substantial problems. Blockchain technology is a distributed and secure database organized by various groups to store and offers a permanent online transaction record. Blockchain has numerous medicinal services applications and can improve mobile health applications, preliminary clinical information, and insurance information storage. Each of the blocks has an independent unit holding its report and a dependent link that makes regulated by participants who store and share the data without third-party intervention. The blockchain technology permits members to transfer information progressively without presenting the channels to theft, malice, and forgery. In this work, we review major blockchain healthcare applications in some areas of patient information management, supply chain management of clinical goods, pharmaceutical investigation, and telemedicine related to healthcare activities.
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Dash, S., Gantayat, P.K., Das, R.K. (2021). Blockchain Technology in Healthcare: Opportunities and Challenges. In: Panda, S.K., Jena, A.K., Swain, S.K., Satapathy, S.C. (eds) Blockchain Technology: Applications and Challenges. Intelligent Systems Reference Library, vol 203. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69395-4_6
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