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Blockchain Technology and Its Implementation Challenges with IoT for Healthcare Industries

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Currently, the electronic health records are stored digitally, and the systems are centralized on a small scale. Internet of Things (IoT) is not related to one thing/device or one aspect alone, rather it enfolds and connects various associated innovative things such as blockchain, artificial intelligence (AI), big data, cloud storage, and hyper-computing. Besides, there are almost no untouched aspects of social fields like education, research, e-commerce, healthcare, defense, transportation, etc., which does not get affected by IoT and its associative supporting technology. The concept of blockchain in healthcare sounds so amazing, but not been successfully implemented by any healthcare sector, and since there is no proven use case, nobody wants to take risk. Nevertheless, to make blockchain technology successful, multiple fund providers, healthcare researchers, and health ministries will have to work together for the transformation of new collaboration, because once it would be done, it is so going to benefit the end users. This review has enlightened to all the research communities about the use of blockchain and IoTs devices in healthcare industries with major challenges.

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, School of Engineering Sciences and Technology, Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi, India

    Ashish Kumar Mourya, Bhavya Alankar & Harleen Kaur

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Mourya, A.K., Alankar, B., Kaur, H. (2021). Blockchain Technology and Its Implementation Challenges with IoT for Healthcare Industries. In: Das, S., Mohanty, M.N. (eds) Advances in Intelligent Computing and Communication. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 202. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-0695-3_22

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