BlocHIE: A BLOCkchain-Based Platform for Healthcare Information Exchange

Jiang, Shan; Cao, Jiannong; Wu, Hanqing; Yang, Yanni; Ma, Mingyu; He, Jianfei

doi:10.1109/smartcomp.2018.00073

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“…Along with the advance of blockchain, there are some new consensus algorithms such as Proof-of-stake (PoS), Byzantine Faulty Tolerant (BFT) [24]. Blockchain has proved its success in healthcare and biomedical applications with promising performances in terms of healthcare data privacy [25], secure data management [26], [27], and transparent medical data storage [28], [29]. Therefore, it is possible to apply in solving healthcare issues related to coronavirus epidemic.…”

Section: Old Blocks New Blockmentioning

confidence: 99%

Blockchain and AI-based Solutions to Combat Coronavirus (COVID-19)-like Epidemics: A Survey

Nguyen¹,

Ding²,

Pathirana³

et al. 2020

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The beginning of 2020 has seen the emergence of coronavirus outbreak caused by a novel virus called SARS-CoV-2. The sudden explosion and uncontrolled worldwide spread of COVID-19 show the limitations of existing healthcare systems to timely handle public health emergencies. In such contexts, innovative technologies such as blockchain and Artificial Intelligence (AI) have emerged as promising solutions for fighting coronavirus epidemic. On the one hand, blockchain can combat pandemics by enabling early detection of outbreaks, protecting user privacy, and ensuring reliable medical supply chain during the outbreak tracking. On the other hand, AI provides intelligent solutions for identifying symptoms caused by coronavirus for treatments and supporting drug manufacturing. Motivated by these, in this paper we present an extensive survey on the use of blockchain and AI for combating coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemics based on the rapidly emerging literature. First, we introduce a new conceptual architecture which integrates blockchain and AI specific for COVID-19 fighting. Particularly, we highlight the key solutions that blockchain and AI can provide to combat the COVID-19 outbreak. Then, we survey the latest research efforts on the use of blockchain and AI for COVID-19 fighting in a wide range of applications. The newly emerging projects and use cases enabled by these technologies to deal with coronavirus pandemic are also presented. Finally, we point out challenges and future directions that motivate more research efforts to deal with future coronavirus-like epidemics.

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confidence: 99%

Blockchain and AI-based Solutions to Combat Coronavirus (COVID-19)-like Epidemics: A Survey

Nguyen¹,

Ding²,

Pathirana³

et al. 2020

Preprint

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“…First, data senders upload their data as "transactions" to the nearby BM. Then the BM acts as a verifiers' manager: it generates unverified blocks, distributes them across the verifiers, triggers the consensus process, and inserts the verified blocks in the [9] data to enhance the throughput, accessibility, computational cost and fairness among users Private (MeDShare)…”

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confidence: 99%

ssHealth: Toward Secure, Blockchain-Enabled Healthcare Systems

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The future of healthcare systems is being shaped by incorporating emerged technological innovations to drive new models for patient care. By acquiring, integrating, analyzing, and exchanging medical data at different system levels, new practices can be introduced, offering a radical improvement to healthcare services. This paper presents a novel smart and secure Healthcare system (ssHealth), which, leveraging advances in edge computing and blockchain technologies, permits epidemics discovering, remote monitoring, and fast emergency response. The proposed system also allows for secure medical data exchange among local healthcare entities, thus realizing the integration of multiple national and international entities and enabling the correlation of critical medical events for, e.g., emerging epidemics management and control. In particular, we develop a blockchainbased architecture and enable a flexible configuration thereof, which optimize medical data sharing between different health entities and fulfil the diverse levels of Quality of Service (QoS) that ssHealth may require. Finally, we highlight the benefits of the proposed ssHealth system and possible directions for future research.Index Terms-Secure and smart health, blockchain, edge computing, medical data sharing, block verification.

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“…In this way, the blockchain's role transforms into providing a proof-of-existence [52] or proof-of-integrity [46,53,54] to ensure that medical records exist and have not been tampered-with respectively. Alternatively, to preserve the utility of the blockchain, Rifi et al [55] propose to store in it pointers to where the data actually reside.…”

Section: Blockchain In Healthcarementioning

confidence: 99%

Dwarna: a blockchain solution for dynamic consent in biobanking

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Dynamic consent aims to empower research partners and facilitate active participation in the research process. Used within the context of biobanking, it gives individuals access to information and control to determine how and where their biospecimens and data should be used. We present Dwarna-a web portal for 'dynamic consent' that acts as a hub connecting the different stakeholders of the Malta Biobank: biobank managers, researchers, research partners, and the general public. The portal stores research partners' consent in a blockchain to create an immutable audit trail of research partners' consent changes. Dwarna's structure also presents a solution to the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation's right to erasure-a right that is seemingly incompatible with the blockchain model. Dwarna's transparent structure increases trustworthiness in the biobanking process by giving research partners more control over which research studies they participate in, by facilitating the withdrawal of consent and by making it possible to request that the biospecimen and associated data are destroyed.

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BlocHIE: A BLOCkchain-Based Platform for Healthcare Information Exchange

Cited by 267 publications

References 14 publications

Blockchain and AI-based Solutions to Combat Coronavirus (COVID-19)-like Epidemics: A Survey

Blockchain and AI-based Solutions to Combat Coronavirus (COVID-19)-like Epidemics: A Survey

ssHealth: Toward Secure, Blockchain-Enabled Healthcare Systems

Dwarna: a blockchain solution for dynamic consent in biobanking

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