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| Source |  AlienVault Blog |
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| Identifiant | 1868643 |
| Date de publication | 2020-08-18 11:00:00 (vue: 2020-08-18 12:13:22) |
| Titre | Security concerns and solutions regarding blockchain use in healthcare |
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The healthcare industry is transforming with the integration of ground-breaking technologies capable of storing patient records electronically. The shift to the digitization of systems makes a variety of healthcare solutions possible that never could have been imagined — but it also puts healthcare data at risk to hackers and cyber attacks.
In answer to this problem, blockchain technologies are emerging as a viable option for the storage and updating of electronic health records (EHRs). Blockchain software offers potential solutions to security risks as well as many other issues in managing patient data in healthcare.
So what’s holding the healthcare industry back from adopting blockchain tech? What security concerns does blockchain usage present? And how might blockchain solve these problems?
Here, we’ll examine the state of blockchain usage in healthcare, its concerns, and the solutions made possible through blockchain technologies.
Blockchain in healthcare
Blockchain, simply defined, is a digital record composed of data in components called blocks. These blocks are stored within a decentralized ledger system that allows for an interactive ecosystem in an often-public market. Since block data is immutable and therefore unable to be tampered with, it allows for security and ease-of-access across networks and geography.
In healthcare, decentralized storage of records in a blockchain system has been pushed as a solution to many problems the industry faces. Data breaches and medical fraud as well as often outdated systems of record storage and management are commonplace in the medical field, where Medicare fraud alone costs taxpayers as much as $30 billion a year.
In fact, 1 in 4 data breaches occurs in the healthcare industry, according to Duquesne University. The massive scale of this illegal activity makes for a difficult problem to solve for healthcare and IT professionals as they attempt to navigate solutions to managing healthcare records with the kind of transferability and analysis necessary in the modern world.
Security concerns proliferate in the healthcare industry. Without secure cloud services incapable of corruption at scale, everyone is at risk. Blockchain in healthcare has the potential to change that by offering secure, perpetual records accessible only with verified keys.
But blockchain usage does not come without its own concerns.
The concerns
Though the potential of blockchain stands to resolve so many problems of the current state of medical data, the issues of interacting with an open, decentralized database or a private one through a specific vendor still present problems for patient data security and the care facilities in charge of protecting it.
There are two forms of blockchain systems: public chains and private chains. Each comes with its own set of security concerns.
Public chains
These are the blockchain systems that are most common and prevalent, ecosystems like Bitcoin in which users across the world can participate. This is appealing in medical use because of the transferability and freedom patients would have with their data. However, a public chain would raise a few big concerns with the security a |
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