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Decentralization has gained a lot of attention due to its application in diverse fields. It is pioneered largely by bitcoin, a blockchain technology, and a financial application of decentralization, which has impacted a lot on how financial transactions happen in a secure manner. The advantage of using this technology is that there is no central authority to rely on. Thus, a decentralized storage of medical records would allow forgeries on the records to be reduced. We propose a solution to avoid forgery in healthcare sector using blockchain. The blockchain network in the proposed system will time-stamp and store healthcare management data and its associated files in the network storage. The network is decentralized; thus, the data is inherently secure. Yet this approach may create a storage exploitation and may lead to breakdown of the system. However, a machine learning-based classification model is used to decide upon which records that get into the blockchain to reduce the required storage. Hence, a system to securely store healthcare data using blockchain technology can be implemented or created.
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Vetriselvi, V., Pragatheeswaran, S., Thirunavukkarasu, V., Arun, A.R. (2020). Preventing Forgeries by Securing Healthcare Data Using Blockchain Technology. In: Tuba, M., Akashe, S., Joshi, A. (eds) Information and Communication Technology for Sustainable Development. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 933. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-7166-0_15
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