Chapter 1: The necessity of trust: blockchain as an audit layer in EU Healthcare.- Chapter 2: Building the Ledger: Fundamentals of Blockchain Technology.- Chapter 3: The Trust Gap in Practice: Challenges and Opportunities.- Chapter 4: Choosing the Right Ledger: Architectures and Platforms for Healthcare.- Chapter 5: Architecture to Operations: Applied Use Cases, EHR Consent and Integrity, Pharmaceutical Provenance, and Telemedicine/IoMT Data Trust.- Chapter 6: Training AI Without Moving Data: Verifiable, Privacy-Preserving, and Explainable Intelligence.- Chapter 7: Legal, Ethical, and Regulatory Aspects (EU Focus).- Chapter 8: Empirical case studies (European), from pilots to policy-aligned patterns.
- Chapter 9: China&s blockchain strategy for healthcare: Policy, infrastructure, and transferable lessons.- Chapter 10: Comparative Analysis and Implementation Pathway.- Chapter 11: Engineering Trust at Scale: Performance, Security, and Sustainability Chapter 12: Closing the Loop (2025--2035): From Prototype to Infrastructure.