Analyzing the Prospects of Blockchain in Healthcare Industry

Table 1

Types of blockchain.

S.no.	Type of Blockchain	Purpose	Example
1.	Public	Non-restrictive, permission-less distributed ledger system.	Bitcoin, Litecoin, Ethereum
2.	Private	Operating in closed network as restricted or permission based blockchain.	Multichain and Hyperledger projects, corda.
3.	Consortium	Semi-decentralized type, greater than one administrator or organization has management rights to blockchain network	Energy web Foundation, R3
4.	Hybrid	Mixture of the public and private blockchain network. Using combination of feature of both types of blockchains enabling a private permission-based system and public permission-less system	Dragonchain.