Sharding-Based Scalability Enhancement of Blockchain-Based Health Application

The ability of blockchain technology to offer improved security and anonymity has led to its rapid adoption across numerous industries, including healthcare. The timely and accurate transfer of patient health records is one of the most crucial requirements for healthcare systems, which blockchain technology may enhance through immutability, decentralization, and security. However, because of the consensus methods and ledger technology in blockchain, the scalability of blockchain is still an issue. Sharding, which includes dividing the network into smaller groups or shards for parallel processing of transactions, is one potential solution to the scalability issue in the blockchain. In order to achieve decentralization and better scalability, this study suggests a sharding methodology that can be used for healthcare data management. With high transaction speeds and shard creation depending on patient transaction requests, the proposed approach can handle substantial amounts of healthcare data. The approach is a promising one for addressing scalability issues in blockchain-based healthcare systems since it can manage a large volume of health care data with quicker transaction times and more efficiency.