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Blockchain for Cybersecure Healthcare

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Mobile Web and Intelligent Information Systems (MobiWIS 2022)

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The medical care industry is especially at risk and focused on cyberattacks on the grounds that they have a huge amount of data of high financial and knowledge worth to hackers. Thus, there is an urgent need for the implementation of countermeasures to the consequences of such crimes in priority areas like law, technology, and education. This article discusses the recent cyber threats and the utilization of blockchain to secure electronic healthcare technologies. Further, this article talks about various blockchain-empowered digital secure answers for medical care zeroing in on added regard, including immutability, auditability, and accountability in processes, for example, user-device binding, registration, maintenance, and alerting. We have likewise proposed a blockchain design that executes a smart contract (SC) to convey safer administrations in the medical service industry.

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    Avnish Singh Jat & Tor-Morten Grønli

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Jat, A.S., Grønli, TM. (2022). Blockchain for Cybersecure Healthcare. In: Awan, I., Younas, M., Poniszewska-Marańda, A. (eds) Mobile Web and Intelligent Information Systems. MobiWIS 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13475. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14391-5_8

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