ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to study the research gaps in the field of healthcare privacy using blockchain and develop an interoperable and secure solution using blockchain technology. It discusses some of the state-of-art privacy-preserving proof of concepts and applications related to the healthcare industry. The chapter provides a brief overview of the related work done in the field of the healthcare industry. Abdullah Al Omar et al. have used the Ethereum blockchain platform for their solution which is a public blockchain platform and requires generating or mining hashes which involves a high computational cost as well as vulnerability in terms of the hash key. The blockchain project in the healthcare scenario will be called I Treat You, which refers to a treatment (business) transaction between bilateral parties, that is, the doctor and patient in Corda. The chapter shows that the doctor–patient treatment interaction can be made private using a permission-based and bilateral ledger-based blockchain platform like Corda.
