Securing Healthcare Information Using Blockchain Technology: A Deep Insight

Today’s world has turned its attention toward blockchain technology due to its vast characteristics and essential features, making it apt for securing healthcare information. Apart from healthcare industry, even finance industry makes use of blockchain technology. The attackers may try to hack the system to get the records of the patients to gain useful information. It can also be breached when data is shared across environments such as sharing of data as well as images. The paper addresses blockchain technology as well as issues related to information in healthcare along with the comparison of works, making a deep insight into the issues and solutions. The paper also provides a survey on existing solutions along with good research ideas for future researchers in the field. Finally, the advantages along with the disadvantages of the works available so far have been discussed.