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Blockchain is a series of transactions recorded in blocks and secured cryptographically. It is immutable, decentralized, and transparent and has proved to be beneficial across all domains to protect and store data. Maintaining privacy, integrity, and security, blockchain is particularly valuable to the healthcare industry. of healthcare data.

Blockchain in Digital Healthcare provides a panoramic review of prospects of blockchain technology in the healthcare domain. Users can record transactions in blocks in an immutable distributed ledger that cannot be changed once recorded and/or published. Blockchain is also decentralized, which eliminates dependency on a trusted third party to facilitate transactions, enabling clients and other users of the blockchain to take ownership of the data they push on the network. Blockchain also makes transactions more secure as clients have their own copies.

Features:

Provides systematic and comprehensive understanding of the block chain technology and the potential in healthcare

Describes how security and privacy concerns of healthcare data can be addressed using Blockchain Technology

Discusses the concept of smart contracts for performing advanced level scripting to create a blockchain network to provide a platform for the development of decentralized applications

Includes a chapter on role of blockchain based insurance application using Ethereum/Hyperledger

Presents cases of blockchain use for various aspects of drug manufacturing and the pharma supply chain

This book serves as a reference book for IT professionals, scientific investigators and researchers who need to analyze the prospects of blockchain technology in healthcare.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1

An Overview of Emerging Updates in Blockchain Technology: Analysis and Recommendations

Champa Joshi, Karm Veer Arya, Ashwani Kant Shukla, Raj Shree, Ravi Prakash Pandey, Vivek Shukla, and Manoj Kumar Dhadwal

Chapter 2

BLOCKCHAIN a ledger for IOT enabled healthcare systems

Ranjana Sikarwar

Chapter 3

Role of block chain technology: Pandemic and Insight into data analysis for Covid - 19

Satyendra Kumar Shet and Vinayaka B. Shet

Chapter 4

A Blockchain-based Secure Healthcare Application

Pratima Sharma, Rajni Jindal and Malaya Dutta Borah

Chapter 5

A brief appraisal on blockchain assisted secured healthcare

Rajib Biswas

Chapter 6

Application of blockchain technology in patients´ medical records

A. Averin and K. Nikolskaia

Chapter 7

IoT & Blockchain Technology-Based Healthcare Monitoring

Mohammad Wazid, Basudeb Bera, Ashok Kumar Das, and Devesh Pratap Singh

Chapter 8

Connecting Patient-Centric Blockchains with Multilayer P2PNetworks and Digital Platforms

Roberto Moro Visconti

Chapter 9

Security of Healthcare Data Using Blockchains

Mayank Pandey, Rachit Agarwal, Sandeep K. Shukla, Nishchal K. Verma

Chapter 10

EMR: Electronic Medical Records keeping Application using Blockchain Technology

Ujjawal Jain, Joythish Reddy , Yash Sarwaswa, Agya Pathak, Sameer Shrivastava, and Malaya Dutta Borah

Chapter 11

Managing Health Insurance by using Blockchain Technology

Muralidhar Kurni and Mrunalini M

Chapter 12

Blockchains in Pharmaceutical Sector

Muralidhar Kurni, Saritha Kuppala, Somasena Reddy K, and Manorama Devi B

Chapter 13

Blockchain in Pharmaceutical Sector

Arnab Banerjee