Applications of Blockchain in Healthcare: Current Landscape & Challenges

Access control system built using trust on blockchain puts patients in control of their data; they can grant consent and access rights to external parties like researchers to have access to all or subset of their medical records.

global consensus model：every node agrees on the same state of the network and stores the complete chain to validate any transaction

local consensus model：reduces the storage requirements on individual nodes and is generally more scalable than global consensus counterparts.

Types of blockchain

• Public blockchain A public blockchain is permissionless, and anyone can easily participate and validate the transactions.
• Federated blockchain A federated blockchain is a permissioned blockchain operating under the leadership of a group often called the consortium.
• Private blockchain：permissioned blockchain centralized to one governing organization.
  faster, higher throughput

Pharmaceutical sector

Blockchain can have a huge positive impact on all three pillars of analytics: data, model, and computation.

incentive features such as crypto assets and reputation scores can be used to encourage participation and submission of better models