Enhancing Patient Data Security with Blockchain
Blockchain technology improves healthcare data security and patient privacy by decentralizing records, ensuring data integrity, and enabling patient control over sensitive information. As healthcare increasingly relies on digital solutions, data security, and patient privacy have become more critical. From EHRs to telemedicine, the amount of data generated in healthcare is enormous, increasing the risks of breaches, unauthorized access, and privacy violations. Originally created for secure financial transactions, blockchain technology is emerging as a promising way to address these challenges, offering innovative methods to protect healthcare data. Blockchain's core features— decentralization and immutability —enable it to store data across a distributed network, preventing any one entity from having control and ensuring that once data is recorded, it cannot be altered. This can transform how patient data is stored and accessed in healthcare...