Blockchain Applications in Healthcare

1Framework for Blockchain in Healthcare

Blockchain technology could be seen as one of the uptakes from the field of digitization that has attracted the attention of researchers and academicians over recent years. A Blockchain is a distributed database with an immutable committed block that provides transparency and robustness, which are the inherent characteristics of the architecture of Blockchain. Blockchain can also be understood as the set of connections which are interconnected to provide the connection in the entire architecture. Blockchain has been recognized as a development for addressing the distribution issues of information with the significant characterization towards data privacy and information security. Thus, the focus here has been to highlight the state of art in terms of Blockchain development, personalization, applications and limitations within the healthcare sector.

Blockchain is one of the most innovative and crucial advancements in the technology world. It belongs to the professional world, bringing together the distributed ledger technology with its architecture and applications in the medical field. This framework will include the evolution and ownership aspects of Blockchain along with the working principles and the different methods in the healthcare ecosystem. Since Blockchain is one of the technologies which is being used in the improvement of the prevailing standards of data sharing, handling and security, the growing anticipation of Blockchain, ...