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The paper analyses the possibility of using blockchain technologies in the sphere of Healthcare. Modern society requires new tools, e.g. distributed ledger and smart contracts for sharing data between patients, doctors and healthcare professionals by giving them control over the data and allowing smarter cooperation. In this situation, utilizing blockchain technology can resolve integrity, data privacy, security and fraud issues, increase patient health autonomy and provide access to better services. This paper provides a review of blockchain technology and research of possible applications in healthcare, gives an overview of positive trends and outputs.
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Avdoshin, S., Pesotskaya, E. (2019). Blockchain Revolution in the Healthcare Industry. In: Arai, K., Bhatia, R., Kapoor, S. (eds) Proceedings of the Future Technologies Conference (FTC) 2018. FTC 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 880. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02686-8_47
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