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What is Blockchain Technology and its Significance in the Current Healthcare System? A Brief Insight

Author(s): Syed S. Ahmad*, Shahzad Khan and Mohammad A. Kamal

Volume 25, Issue 12, 2019

Page: [1402 - 1408] Pages: 7

DOI: 10.2174/1381612825666190620150302

Price: $65

Abstract

Background: The promising eventual fate of blockchain in healthcare has a lot more extensive prospect. Blockchain is a novel structure that gives another design to storage and trade of data among different members of a particular network. In case of a hospital, blockchain takes into consideration the creation of a better treatment structure by the expert doctor in order to arrange the meeting based on the symptoms of patients throughout the world by the electronic system. Blockchain technology is crucial for biomedical and human services applications as social insurance has turned out to be a standout among the most essential rising application areas of the blockchain distributed ledger technology.

Result: By and large, blockchain is treated as a conveyed record to store social insurance related information for allocation, trading, dissecting, footage, and affirming purposes among accomplices. The advantage of blockchain databases versus traditional dispersed databases is that they are decentralized, permanent, and perfected with advanced digital payment frameworks and hash chain occasion structure. The blockchain code is an unlocked resource and can be utilized, altered, and customized by its clients.

Conclusion: Nowadays, blockchain is expected to be almost universally adopted across medical organizations around the world. The purpose of this review article is to comprehend the current explored subjects, difficulties, and future headings in regards to blockchain innovation from the specialized perspective in the health care system.

Keywords: Blockchain technology, health care system, network, interoperability, organizations, travel industry.

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