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Blockchain in Healthcare: A Review

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Since Bitcoin introduced the blockchain, research has been conducted to expand its use cases beyond finance. One sector where blockchain is anticipated to have a big influence is healthcare. Researchers and practitioners in health informatics constantly struggle to keep up with the advancement of this field’s young but quickly expanding body of research. This chapter provides a thorough review of studies carried out to demonstrate the benefits of blockchain technology that have been utilized in the domain of healthcare, in addition to the pandemic, COVID-19, which led to a massive and pervasive repercussion on healthcare and has significantly accelerated the implementation of digital technology. This chapter also depicts how researchers have presented the use cases for adopting Blockchain technology in the healthcare sector. The state-of-the-art blockchain application development for healthcare has also been described in this chapter, along with any inadequacies and potential future study topics.

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Saxena, R., Arora, D., Nagar, V., Mahapatra, S. (2023). Blockchain in Healthcare: A Review. In: Panda, S.K., Mishra, V., Dash, S.P., Pani, A.K. (eds) Recent Advances in Blockchain Technology. Intelligent Systems Reference Library, vol 237. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-22835-3_8

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