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Imposing Security and Privacy in the Healthcare Industry Using Blockchain Technology

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Blockchain is a leading central concept, and it is gaining more attention in various businesses and various scenarios. It has been one of the superior technology that helps in decentralizing different areas of applications. Despite numerous uses of Blockchain, it is suffering from a severe concern generally resultant from security. Blockchain has a high potential developing trend, requiring more focus on privacy and security concerns for people. Data of the healthcare industry is both sensitive and also needs protection from theft or illegal modifications. Security, privacy, data integrity, and non-repudiation are essential features to be associated with healthcare data. Data stored in the distributed ledger of transactions with Blockchain technology is highly reliable and the data, once stored, is immutable. As healthcare data is sensitive, it is indispensable to have highly evolved systems for protecting data. At the same time, it is also essential to ensure that evidence-based research documents are not illegally modified and non-repudiation is guaranteed. In this work, the summary discusses the Blockchain security structure, and also the particular security threats and vulnerabilities are analyzed. Besides, the Blockchain-based security system and its issues are presenting in this work. Furthermore, in the Blockchain, the key technologies on privacy, trust, and security are presented. Moreover, this work provides open research challenges. It helps different stakeholders such as general users of medical data, academia, healthcare professionals, and healthcare units across the globe, given to the researchers on the privacy, trust, and security issues in Blockchain Technologies.

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  1. Research Scholar, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Koneru Lakshmaiah Education Foundation, Deemed to be University, Hyderabad, Telangana, 500075, India

    J. Bheemeswara Sastry

  2. Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Koneru Lakshmaiah Education Foundation, Deemed to be University, Hyderabad, Telangana, 500075, India

    Barnali Gupta Banik

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  3. Department of Civil Engineering, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Vilnius, Lithuania

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Bheemeswara Sastry, J., Banik, B.G. (2022). Imposing Security and Privacy in the Healthcare Industry Using Blockchain Technology. In: Tyagi, A.K., Abraham, A., Kaklauskas, A. (eds) Intelligent Interactive Multimedia Systems for e-Healthcare Applications. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-6542-4_13

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