Chapter 4: Blockchain-based electronic health record system in the age of COVID-19
Yang Lu School of Science, Technology and Health, York St John University, York, United Kingdom
Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the limitations of current healthcare systems in responding to public health emergencies in a timely and efficient manner. Despite the advantages of digitalized health records, a large portion of health systems are centralized and fall short in guaranteeing basic security and privacy requirements. As a decentralized and distributed technology, blockchain has been utilized for secure data access and information exchange in the healthcare domain. Moreover, COVID-19 health services such as antibody testing, vaccination ...
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