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How Blockchain Benefits Healthcare System

Digital health records contain critical information about patients' health, which can be used in harmful ways; therefore, protecting them from being breached is essential. Now some organizations are turning to blockchain technology to safeguard sensitive health data.How does Blockchain work?Blockchain is a decentralized digital ledger that records and encrypts transactions across a network. Each data is encrypted and linked in a chain making it more secure. Some advantages of this structure are as follows:1- DecentralizationIt means nodes are distributed to confuse attackers because there is no single point of attack.2- ImmutabilityOnce records are entered they cannot be altered. This ensur