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Most health institutions keep track of patients’ data using an internal network; this incapacitates them to share data and resources across various healthcare providers. These result in high cost of medical services and patients’ data segregation. Additionally, these patients, who are fundamental to the healthcare procedure, have nearly no authority over their data. Blockchain technology provides protected, shared, and decentralized ledger that aids communication and exchange of information in a peer-to-peer network, where broadcasted verdicts are decided through the participant rather than a solitary authority. This study examines the blockchain structure to develop a decentralized and secured healthcare system. The system ensures that patients personalize and govern their healthcare data while others are considered client with assigned liberty. A technique built-on distributed ledger protocol and public-key cryptography are adapted in this study to produce an affix-only, irreversible, timestamped chain of data.
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Thompson, A., Odekunle, H., Alese, B. (2023). A Secure Decentralized Privacy-Preserving Healthcare System Using Blockchain. In: Daimi, K., Dionysiou, I., El Madhoun, N. (eds) Principles and Practice of Blockchains. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-10507-4_9
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