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Blockchain across Oracle

You're reading from  Blockchain across Oracle

Product type Book
Published in Oct 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788474290
Pages 530 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Robert van Molken Robert van Molken
Profile icon Robert van Molken
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Table of Contents (24) Chapters close

Title Page
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
1. An Introduction to the Blockchain 2. How Blockchain Will Disrupt Your Organization 3. Blockchain 101 - Assets, Transactions, and Hashes 4. Blockchain 101 - Blocks, Chains, and Consensus 5. Blockchain 101 - Security, Privacy, and Smart Contracts 6. Understanding the Blockchain Data Flow 7. Public Versus Permissioned Blockchains and their Providers 8. Ethereum Versus Hyperledger 9. Building a Next-Generation Oracle B2B Platform 10. Introducing the Oracle Blockchain Cloud Service 11. Setting Up Your Permissioned Blockchain 12. Designing and Developing Your First Smart Contract 13. Deploying and Testing Your First Smart Contract 14. Configuring, Extending, and Monitoring Your Network 15. Blockchain Across the Financial Services Industry 16. Blockchain Across the Transportation Industry 17. Blockchain Across the Healthcare Industry 18. Future Industry and Technology Directions 1. Other Books You May Enjoy Index

Use case – MedicalChain (health records)


I already briefly mentioned MedicalChain in a previous chapter when illustrating the potential of data sharing using blockchain technology. The reason I'm discussing this project once again is because of the changes that it has undergone, its current impact on the healthcare industry, and because it uses Hyperledger Fabric as its blockchain framework.

MedicalChain is the first healthcare company that started to use blockchain and smart contracts in order to build a decentralized platform that enables secure, transparent, and an auditable exchange and use of medical data. Their blockchain-enabled platform creates a user-focused electronic health record while maintaining a single source of truth / view of the user's data.

MedicalChain enables users to approve conditional access to their personal data for different healthcare professionals, such as doctors, hospitals, and pharmacists, as they deem appropriate. Every interaction with the medical data is...

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