# Optimized Blockchain Model for Internet of Things based Healthcare Applications

## TL;DR

This paper explores how optimized blockchain technology can enhance security and privacy in IoT-based healthcare applications, addressing practical challenges and benefits for smart city health networks.

## Contribution

It introduces an optimized blockchain model tailored for IoT healthcare, highlighting its potential benefits and practical obstacles in real-world deployment.

## Key findings

- Blockchain enhances security and privacy in IoT healthcare data.
- Practical obstacles include scalability and data privacy concerns.
- Benefits include secure, private, and efficient health data management.

## Abstract

There continues to be a recent push to taking the cryptocurrency based ledger system known as Blockchain and applying its techniques to non-financial applications. One of the main areas for application remains Internet of Things (IoT) as we see many areas of improvement as we move into an age of smart cities. In this paper, we examine an initial look at applying the key aspects of Blockchain to a health application network where patients health data can be used to create alerts important to authenticated healthcare providers in a secure and private manner. This paper also presents the benefits and also practical obstacles of the blockchain-based security approaches in IoT.