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Artificial Intelligence in Health Blockchain for health-care security

improving the existing mechanism is to develop a hybrid Author contributions
mechanism system of POW and POS. Further research and
experiments on creating better consensus mechanisms will Conceptualization: Asmaul Hosna, Nujhat Tabassum
significantly contribute to the development of blockchain Rahman, Supriya Dewanjee
systems. 63 Writing – original draft: Asmaul Hosna, Nujhat Tabassum
Rahman, Supriya Dewanjee, Zulfikar Alom
10.4. Data validation and cleanup Writing – review & editing: Elmustafa Sayed Ali,
Not all data stored in the blockchain is verified, thereby Mohammad Abdul Azim, Rashid A. Saeed
prompting smart contracts to delete some codes, although Ethics approval and consent to participate
the contract address will not be removed. Furthermore,
smart contracts either have the same codes or no codes at Not applicable.
all. 59,64 In addition, most smart contracts are not published
after their execution. Therefore, data cleaning and Consent for publication
disclosure strategies must be put in place to enhance the Not applicable.
efficiency of blockchain systems.
Availability of data
10.5. Future regulations
Data are available from the corresponding author upon
In the context of applying blockchain technology in health- reasonable request.
care domain while safeguarding data security, more efforts
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