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Security and Privacy Issues of Blockchain Technology in Health Care—A Review

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ICT Analysis and Applications

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems ((LNNS,volume 314))

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Recorded healthcare data by using electronic health record (EHR) can be shared with numerous medical management units, hospitals, health centers, laboratory for identification of disease. Regardless of sharing data, it is vulnerable because it could be tempered or harmed as security and privacy have not been promised. In current time, it is shown that medical data is using cloud for storage, but there is also security, privacy and trust which has not been guaranteed. Therefore, researchers have come up with the solution known as blockchain technology to preserve data. By integrating cloud with this technology, data becomes invulnerable. As matter of fact, blockchain-based cloud technology can resolve lot of issues concerning healthcare industry. In this paper, systematic review of previous literature has been discussed. Also, state of the art on blockchain-based medical healthcare system has been presented by analyzing a few works. Also, the blockchain-based healthcare sector is gripped with some challenges. Significant among them being adoption of blockchain-based technique as it is quite different from the traditional approach, its adaptability and need for more research in the applications of blockchain for ensuring security and privacy of data. These issues have been mentioned in this paper. Some future directions can be of significant value for researchers and healthcare practitioners.

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    Nida Fatima, Parul Agarwal & Shahab Saquib Sohail

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Fatima, N., Agarwal, P., Sohail, S.S. (2022). Security and Privacy Issues of Blockchain Technology in Health Care—A Review. In: Fong, S., Dey, N., Joshi, A. (eds) ICT Analysis and Applications. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 314. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-5655-2_18

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