The sharing of medical information between various organizations while ensuring the security, integrity, and privacy of health data represents one of the most significant problems in the digital healthcare field. It is therefore increasingly proposed to adopt blockchain technology in order to exploit the characteristics of immutability and integrity inherent in blockchain when sharing data between different operators.
In fact, in the healthcare domain it must be ensured that access to patient's health data is reserved only for authorized subjects in order to protect not only patients' privacy, but also their safety. Healthcare organizations are also required to comply with both the GDPR rules and the Privacy Rule of the HIPAA of 1996.
In the following section, we see how blockchain technology helps protect healthcare data.
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