Chapter 5 Blockchain and IoT for Health-Care Applications

Jasmin Annie Genefer M* and Janeela Theresa MM

St. Xavier’s Catholic College of Engineering, Nagercoil, Tamil Nadu, India

Email: theresajaneela@yahoo.com

Blockchain is a decentralized and public ledger that keeps track of transactions across a network of computers. It’s a system that permits a group of untrustworthy individuals to verify a transaction. IoT devices in healthcare can give real-time sensory data from patients, which can be processed and evaluated.

The combination of IoT and Blockchain could be a viable option for designing a decentralized IoT-based healthcare system. The perfect combination of blockchain and IoT appears ...

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