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Data Sharing and Privacy–Preserving of Medical Records Using Blockchain

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The present way to deal with patient health records disappoints clinicians and fails to fulfill the requirements of a diverse patient population. Many of these issues are raised due to absentiseem of direct control by doctors and patients over the innovation that serves them. As these innovations empower secure credentialing of authorized professionals and audit of clinical exchanges without the cooperation of a doctor’s facility or state middle person, we have actualized health data innovation that is bought and controlled by the people in the clinical relationship. A Blockchain is an open Distributed Ledger that can record transactions between two parties efficiently, verifiable and permanent way. This empowers every patient and each authorized specialist to claim and totally control their open source associated health records inside a protected situation. The aim is to study concepts and techniques of blockchain and to understand how blockchain technology works for different applications in different scenarios. Our arrangement is a patient-focused way to deal with privacy assurance in cloud computing and data dependent on advanced assent models, blockchain identity, and blockchain audit. Digitally signed and encrypted transactions are verified by the peers. Public blockchains, for example, Bitcoin and Ethereum have been appeared to expel institutional control and decentralize innovation with advantages to development and restriction opposition.

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Kavathekar, S.S., Patil, R. (2020). Data Sharing and Privacy–Preserving of Medical Records Using Blockchain. In: Karrupusamy, P., Chen, J., Shi, Y. (eds) Sustainable Communication Networks and Application. ICSCN 2019. Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies, vol 39. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34515-0_8

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