Blockchain in Healthcare: Insights on COVID-19

Fusco, Antonio; Dicuonzo, Grazia; Dell’Atti, Vittorio; Tatullo, Marco

doi:10.3390/ijerph17197167

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“…As reported in [ 25 ], the use of blockchain can facilitate the creation of generalizable predictive systems in healthcare and contain infections. Authors conducted a rigorous analysis in opportunities and limits to blockchain-based adoption within the COVID-19 pandemic and conclude that blockchain, applied to the health sector, can offer effective opportunities to improve prevention activities, management of clinical risk, patient data and EHR data, and also the scientific research and the divulging of scientific knowledge.…”

Section: Available Tools: Collaborative Infrastructures Institutes Nmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Fusco et al . [ 25 ] underline how the adoption of blockchain systems as a bridge to ensure cross-communication might overcome the issue of interoperability among different EHR systems and allow the rapid collection and sharing of healthcare data respecting privacy and security. Also pertinent to the focus of this overview, we want to highlight the opportunities of using blockchain for improving the exchange of health records, especially for enhancing patient-centric interoperability and user-centred medical research [ 26 ] and to ensure secure and effective EHR data sharing that allows personal medical data remaining in control of the patient [ 27 ].…”

Section: Available Tools: Collaborative Infrastructures Institutes Nmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Health informatics and EHR to support clinical research in the COVID-19 pandemic: an overview

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et al. 2021

Briefings in Bioinformatics

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The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has clearly shown that major challenges and threats for humankind need to be addressed with global answers and shared decisions. Data and their analytics are crucial components of such decision-making activities. Rather interestingly, one of the most difficult aspects is reusing and sharing of accurate and detailed clinical data collected by Electronic Health Records (EHR), even if these data have a paramount importance. EHR data, in fact, are not only essential for supporting day-by-day activities, but also they can leverage research and support critical decisions about effectiveness of drugs and therapeutic strategies. In this paper, we will concentrate our attention on collaborative data infrastructures to support COVID-19 research and on the open issues of data sharing and data governance that COVID-19 had made emerge. Data interoperability, healthcare processes modelling and representation, shared procedures to deal with different data privacy regulations, and data stewardship and governance are seen as the most important aspects to boost collaborative research. Lessons learned from COVID-19 pandemic can be a strong element to improve international research and our future capability of dealing with fast developing emergencies and needs, which are likely to be more frequent in the future in our connected and intertwined world.

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Section: Available Tools: Collaborative Infrastructures Institutes Nmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Available Tools: Collaborative Infrastructures Institutes Nmentioning

confidence: 99%

Health informatics and EHR to support clinical research in the COVID-19 pandemic: an overview

Dagliati

Malovini

Tibollo

et al. 2021

Briefings in Bioinformatics

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“…The vaccine lots are assigned to freezing devices, this association being updated during the distribution chain enacting its decentralized tracing (see lines 9-18). Each time a monitored value associated with a freezing device is provided it is checked against the imposed rules (line [26][27][28][29].…”

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Blockchain Platform For COVID-19 Vaccine Supply Management

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Cioara

Antal

et al. 2021

IEEE Open J. Comput. Soc.

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In the context of COVID-19 pandemic, the rapid roll-out of a vaccine and the implementation of a worldwide immunization campaign is critical, but its success will depend on the availability of an operational and transparent distribution chain that can be audited by all relevant stakeholders. In this paper, we discuss how blockchain technology can help in several aspects of COVID-19 vaccination scheme. We present a system in which blockchain technology is used to guaranty data integrity and immutability of beneficiary registration for vaccination, avoiding identity thefts and impersonations. Smart contracts are defined to monitor and track the proper vaccine distribution conditions against the safe handling rules defined by vaccine producers enabling the awareness of all network peers. For vaccine administration, a transparent and tamper-proof solution for side effects self-reporting is provided considering beneficiary and administrated vaccine association. A prototype was implemented using the Ethereum test network, Ropsten, considering the COVID-19 vaccine distribution conditions. The results obtained for each onchain operation can be checked and validated on the Etherscan. In terms of throughput and scalability, the proposed blockchain system shows promising results while the estimated cost in terms of gas for vaccination scenario based on real data remains within reasonable limits.

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“…The real-time information sharing, public health surveillance, public health data tracing, donation tracking, crisis management as well as tracking the demand of epidemic prevention materials supply chain to ensure that the medical staff and patients have access to the tools, all are block chain based podiums [197] , [198] . Block chain technology helps in reorganization invariability, clarity and early diagnosis of infected cases to provide a restored policy for effective management of COVID-19 pandemic [199] . Khan et al .…”

Section: Preventive Strategies For Covid-19mentioning

confidence: 99%