Blockchain-Enabled Internet of Medical Things to Combat COVID-19

Dai, Hong-Ning; Imran, Muhammad; Haider, Noman

doi:10.1109/iotm.0001.2000087

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“…The convergence of blockchain and IoMT can ameliorate the interoperability of IoMT systems, significantly improve the security of IoMT, and enhance the privacy protection of IoMT [2] . Fig.…”

Section: Blockchain-enabled Iomtmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…8 , from vaccine research and testing to follow-up observation of vaccine injections, and health declaration, information can be collected and recorded on the chain. In the operation and maintenance, various IoMT devices can evolve, such as sensors, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags, bracelets, etc [2] . In the IoMT blockchain system as illustrated in Fig.…”

Section: Applications Of Bcemtmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In this case, a large number of computational operations are required. Thus, distributed computing is a solution [79] . In the BCeMT system, the architecture is distributed and the blockchain-based encryption operations ensure the security and privacy of medical data.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Since the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic, substantial efforts have been paid on exploiting technological advances to effectively fight against this disease. Among all these technologies, the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) is one of the most promising approaches to help to prevent the widespread of this infectious disease [1] , [2] . IoMT is a remote healthcare system, which is mainly composed of medical sensor devices, medical data servers, and professional medical staff (i.e., doctors, nurses, and so on).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…One promising solution to the aforementioned challenges is integrating blockchain with IoMT [2] , [8] , [9] . The inherent nature of blockchain includes decentralization, trustworthiness, traceability, and transparency.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Is blockchain for Internet of Medical Things a panacea for COVID-19 pandemic?

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The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has deeply influenced the lifestyle of the general public and the healthcare system of the society. As a promising approach to address the emerging challenges caused by the epidemic of infectious diseases like COVID-19, Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) deployed in hospitals, clinics, and healthcare centers can save the diagnosis time and improve the efficiency of medical resources though privacy and security concerns of IoMT stall the wide adoption. In order to tackle the privacy, security, and interoperability issues of IoMT, we propose a framework of blockchain-enabled IoMT by introducing blockchain to incumbent IoMT systems. In this paper, we review the benefits of this architecture and illustrate the opportunities brought by blockchain-enabled IoMT. We also provide use cases of blockchain-enabled IoMT on fighting against the COVID-19 pandemic, including the prevention of infectious diseases, location sharing and contact tracing, and the supply chain of injectable medicines. We also outline future work in this area.

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A comprehensive review on blockchain and Internet of Things in healthcare

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Kaur

Singh

2021

Trans Emerging Tel Tech

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Blockchain Technology, the fundamental technology behind Bitcoin, has drawn considerable recognition ever since its origin. Its potential has gained significant interest in various applications, varying from the music industry, financial services, Internet-of-Things (IoT), smart grid, edge computing, cybersecurity, and the healthcare industry. However, the information is divided amongst several intermediaries involved with adverse impacts on data quality in the healthcare domain. In the near future, blockchain technology can reshape the way the healthcare industry works by providing personalized and reliable patient data management, reforming the traditional healthcare practices, secure mechanisms for data sharing, efficient pharmaceutical supply chain management, and drug traceability and many more. In this study, an extensive literature review has been provided that includes the different prospects of using blockchain technology in healthcare. The review investigates the work done to enable the amalgamation of IoT and Blockchain in the health ecosystem. Significant blockchain-based healthcare use cases such as data storage, data sharing, drug traceability, clinical trials, and remote patient monitoring are investigated. Further, the Internet of Things and blockchain technology-based SWOT (Strength, Weakness, Opportunity, and Threat) analysis and the challenges linked in the healthcare domain because of the enactment of IoT and blockchain technology are discussed to support advanced studies in this domain.

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Ethics for integrating emerging technologies to contain COVID ‐19 in Zimbabwe

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Akinnuwesi

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Human Behav and Emerg Tech

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Zimbabwe is among the countries affected with the coronavirus disease (COVID‐19) and implemented several infection control and measures such as social distancing, contact tracing, regular temperature checking in strategic entry and exit points, face masking among others. The country also implemented recursive national lockdowns and curfews to reduce the virus transmission rate and its catastrophic impact. These large‐scale measures are not easy to implement, adhere to and subsequently difficult to practice and maintain which lead to imperfect public compliance, especially if there is a significant impact on social and political norms, economy, and psychological wellbeing of the affected population. Also, emerging COVID‐19 variants, porous borders, regular movement of informal traders and sale of fake vaccination certificates continue to threaten impressive progress made towards virus containment. Therefore, several emerging technologies have been adopted to strengthen the health system and health services delivery, improve compliance, adherence and maintain social distancing. These technologies use health data, symptoms monitoring, mobility, location and proximity data for contact tracing, self‐isolation, and quarantine compliance. However, the use of emerging technologies has been debatable and contentious because of the potential violation of ethical values such as security and privacy, data format and management, synchronization, over‐tracking, over‐surveillance and lack of proper development and implementation guidelines which impact their efficacy, adoption and ultimately influence public trust. Therefore, the study proposes ethical framework for using emerging technologies to contain the COVID‐19 pandemic. The framework is centered on ethical practices such as security, privacy, justice, human dignity, autonomy, solidarity, beneficence, and non‐maleficence.

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Blockchain-Enabled Internet of Medical Things to Combat COVID-19

Cited by 92 publications

References 15 publications

Is blockchain for Internet of Medical Things a panacea for COVID-19 pandemic?

Is blockchain for Internet of Medical Things a panacea for COVID-19 pandemic?

A comprehensive review on blockchain and Internet of Things in healthcare

Ethics for integrating emerging technologies to contain COVID ‐19 in Zimbabwe

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