Blockchain Engineering: Secure, Sustainable Frameworks for Healthcare Applications

by Muthu Ramachandran

Overview

This book provides a comprehensive guide to the principles and engineering approaches necessary for developing secure and sustainable blockchain applications. It introduces fundamental blockchain concepts and explores the integration of AI and blockchain. Targeted at students, IT professionals, managers, and healthcare practitioners, this book seeks to empower readers to effectively leverage blockchain technology.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789819643608
Publisher:	Springer-Verlag New York, LLC
Publication date:	06/17/2025
Series:	Blockchain Technologies
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	96 MB
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About the Author

Prof. Muthu Ramachandran is currently a Cybersecurity, AI, and Blockchain Research Consultant at Forti5 Technologies, UK, and Professor Extraordinarius at University of South Africa (UNISA). He is a certified IASME CE, ICA, IoT Cyber & IoT Assurance. Previously, he was Visiting Professor at Indian Institute of Technology (ISM) Dhanbad, India and at University of Southampton. He was also Associate Professor in the School of Built Environment, Engineering, and Computing at Leeds Beckett University in the UK for 18 years. Prior to his academic career, he spent nearly eight years in industrial research with Philips Research Labs, Volantis Systems Ltd, Surrey, UK, and at DRDO, Hyderabad, India as Senior Scientist working on real-time systems, software architecture, reuse, and testing.

Table of Contents

Introduction to Blockchain Concepts.- Core Blockchain Technologies.- ICT in Global Healthcare Today.- Blockchain Security Landscape and Classification.- Sustainability of Blockchain.- Reusability in Blockchain.- Domain Engineering for Healthcare Applications.- SEF for Blockchain Applications.- Requirements Engineering for Blockchain Applications.- Design Methods and Reference Architecture for Blockchain Applications.