Blockchain technology initially popularized by cryptocurrencies, has rapidly gain traction across various sectors, including healthcare. It has the potential to revolutionize the healthcare industry, enhancing security, and data management. This article explores the concept of health blockchain, it potential applications and the benefits it offers to patients, healthcare providers, and other stakeholders.

UNDERSTANDING BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGY
Blockchain, in its simplest form is a decentralized digital ledger that records transactions across multiple computers. They are also known as NODES. Each of them is time-stamped and linked to the previous block creating a chain of information. This chain is publicly accessible ensuring data integrity and trust in the sense that it is transparent and resistant to modification.

BLOCKCHAIN AND HEALTHCARE
Blockchain helps with the management of electronic health records. It enable secure storage access and sharing of patient data across multiple healthcare providers while maintaining privacy. Patients have greater control over their medical information granting permission to a lot of people while ensuring data integrity. Blockchain establish a secure and efficient method for sharing data, enabling healthcare providers to communicate effortlessly. This can lead to improved care ,reducing medical errors and enhancing patient outcomes.it allows for traceability of consent, data collection and analysis, reducing fraud and make research outcome very reliable. It enable researchers to access larger data sets for analysis without compromising patient privacy.

DRUGS AND BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGY
Blockchain offers a solution by enabling end to end traceability and transparency in the drug supply chain, meaning no counterfeit drugs, because this counterfeit pose a significant threat to our safety. With blockchain each transection means that drugs can be recorded on the blockchain ensuring authenticity reducing the risk of counterfeit products, and enhancing patients safety.