A majority of population from rural and urban areas visit nearby healthcare centers when affected with any illness or disease. The patients in those areas may either have complete knowledge of securing the records that are being shared with the healthcare staff or may be ignorant, particularly from rural areas. Towards this end, there is a need to secure the healthcare records of the patients undergoing treatments and diagnosis for various disease recovery mechanisms. There exists tremendous work in the literature to deal with preserving and ensuring security of healthcare records as presented in this section to enlighten the need to use the emerging blockchain cloud domain.
In foreign countries like United States of America, there are stringent rules to maintain securely the healthcare records in every hospital, irrespective of regions. This will reduce burden on the patient from being worried about security of their reports and throws a challenge on the entire hospital staff to preserve the trust and security aspects. However, if such rules does not exists, then there is a need to strengthen the security of the healthcare records through a stringent governance or rules preserving system.