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Blockchain technology is a distributed ledger technology that enables transactions between two or more parties to be verified, executed and stored in a secure, transparent, immutable manner without an intermediary organization. With the development of smart contracts, legal contracts between the parties have been automatically verified and operated without intermediaries, leading to the use of blockchain technology in many sectors such as food, energy, real estate, construction, and automotive. In the field of healthcare, blockchain technology draws attention with its potential to fundamentally transform the health ecosystem. In this study, the meaning, structure, functioning, types, usage areas of blockchain technology, smart contracts and usage areas of blockchain technology in the field of health services are shared with current application examples. Many advantages such as the secured sharing of personal health data with doctors, clinical researches and precision medicine with the patient permission, optimization of administrative processes and cost reduction as a result of intermediary transactions, and prevention of product counterfeiting as a result of increasing information security and traceability of products in supply chain management, based on the use of blockchain technology in the field of health services were also discussed. This article, which was designed as a structural review, was created by scanning studies on "blockchain technology", "smart contracts" and "blockchain technology in health services" in the national and international literature.

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