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Blockchain's Potential Effect on the Healthcare Industry

Advances in civil and industrial engineering book series

Block chain secures data. Blockchain imitates computerised trading markets. The 2008 cryptocurrency and transaction network Bitcoin leads blockchain technology. When buyers or sellers declare payments, blockchain transfers bitcoin. Blockchain can change finance like the Internet. Block chain technology may affect medicine. This fast-growing issue affects many healthcare providers. Open, irreversible, stable, and collaborative technology are preferred by cryptocurrency over regulated, hidden, proprietary, and changeable ones. Blockchain is used in medical records, security, database management, and biotechnology regulation. Blockchain helps biopharmaceuticals track illicit medications. It monitors medicines and counterfeiters. This book chapter presents a comprehensive block chain technology for health sector decision makers and explores difficulties and constraints using a suitable markup. Here are current and potential medical blockchain applications.

Authors: Binay Kumar Pandey, Mukundan Appadurai Paramashivan, Vinay Kumar Nassa, Darshan A. Mahajan, Pankaj Dadheech, A. Shaji George, A. Shaji George

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4018/979-8-3693-1335-0.ch010

Publish Year: 2024