Securing Medical Big data through Blockchain technology

In the modern world, there is a purpose of storing, retrieving and analysing huge volumes of data. So, big data becomes one of the reliable aspects to analyse the large volumes of data to come to a better decision. Usually, big data is used to analyse large data set of information which cannot be handled by the traditional data processing software. This includes both structured and unstructured data and analyses the hidden patterns, correlations to retrieve the accurate results which would be helpful to improve the market results in organizations. So, securing the big data is one of the tedious processes in this real world in order to guard the data from attacks, theft or other malicious activities to maintain the confidentiality. The main characteristics of big data include Volume, Velocity, Variety, Veracity and Value. This paper mainly focused on several challenges in big data faced by healthcare domain and the technologies to maintain the security in it.