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A Review on State-of-Art Blockchain Schemes for Electronic Health Records Management

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|Mar 2024

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/cait-2024-0003 | Journal eISSN: 1314-4081 | Journal ISSN: 1311-9702
Language: English
Page range: 35 - 63
Submitted on: Aug 8, 2022
Accepted on: Jan 18, 2024
Published on: Mar 23, 2024
Published by: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Information and Communication Technologies
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
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