How Can Blockchain Help People in the Event of Pandemics Such as the COVID-19?

Lee, Hee Jin; Park, Donghwi

doi:10.1007/s10916-020-01577-8

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“…MEC integrated with 5G, can be used to process the data locally to improve the scalability of the systems as well as security and privacy of collected data. Moreover, MEC integrated with 5G can easily be used to implement decentralized solutions via Blockchain [17] , [18] . The delivery of items to the final destination can be performed via Beyond LineOf-Sight (BLOS) UAV guided by the 5G network.…”

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The role of 5G for digital healthcare against COVID-19 pandemic: Opportunities and challenges

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COVID-19 pandemic caused a massive impact on healthcare, social life, and economies on a global scale. Apparently, technology has a vital role to enable ubiquitous and accessible digital health services in pandemic conditions as well as against “re-emergence” of COVID-19 disease in a post-pandemic era. Accordingly, 5G systems and 5G-enabled e-health solutions are paramount. This paper highlights methodologies to effectively utilize 5G for e-health use cases and its role to enable relevant digital services. It also provides a comprehensive discussion of the implementation issues, possible remedies and future research directions for 5G to alleviate the health challenges related to COVID-19.

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“…Consequently, blockchain will eliminate intermediaries, save costs, minimize donation exploitation, and boost social cohesion. Motivating donation practices helps to aid people facing medical or economic difficulties due to the spread of infectious diseases [37]. Hyperchain is a blockchain-based network that aims to counter the coronavirus outbreak by specializing in uniquely tracking donations [38].…”

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Blockchain for COVID-19: Review, Opportunities, and a Trusted Tracking System

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The sudden development of the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the limitations in modern healthcare systems to handle public health emergencies. It is evident that adopting innovative technologies such as blockchain can help in effective planning operations and resource deployments. Blockchain technology can play an important role in the healthcare sector, such as improved clinical trial data management by reducing delays in regulatory approvals, and streamline the communication between diverse stakeholders of the supply chain, etc. Moreover, the spread of misinformation has intensely increased during the outbreak, and existing platforms lack the ability to validate the authenticity of data, leading to public panic and irrational behavior. Thus, developing a blockchain-based tracking system is important to ensure that the information received by the public and government agencies is reliable and trustworthy. In this paper, we review various blockchain applications and opportunities in combating the COVID-19 pandemic and develop a tracking system for the COVID-19 data collected from various external sources. We propose, implement, and evaluate a blockchain-based system using Ethereum smart contracts and oracles to track reported data related to the number of new cases, deaths, and recovered cases obtained from trusted sources. We present detailed algorithms that capture the interactions between stakeholders in the network. We present security analysis and the cost incurred by the stakeholders, and we highlight the challenges and future directions of our work. Our work demonstrates that the proposed solution is economically feasible and ensures data integrity, security, transparency, data traceability among stakeholders.

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“…Consequently, blockchain will eliminate intermediaries, save costs, minimize donation exploitation and boost social cohesion. Motivating donation practices helps to aid people facing medical or economic difficulties due to the spread of infectious diseases [34]. Hyperchain is a blockchain-based network that aims to counter the coronavirus outbreak by specializing in uniquely tracking donations [35].…”

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Blockchain for COVID-19: Review, Opportunites and a Trusted Tracking System

Marbouh¹,

Abbasi²,

Maasmi³

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<p>The sudden development of the COVID-19 pandemic exposed the limitations in modern healthcare systems to handle public health emergencies. It is evident that adopting innovative technologies such as blockchain can help in effective planning operations and resource deployments. Blockchain technology can play an important role in the healthcare sector such as improved clinical trial data management by reducing delays in regulatory approvals, streamline the communication between diverse stakeholders of the supply chain etc. Moreover, the spread of misinformation has intensely increased during the outbreak and existing platforms lack the ability to validate the authenticity of data, causing people to panic and act irrationally. Thus, developing a blockchain-based tracking system is important to ensure that the information received by the public and government agencies are reliable and trustworthy. In this paper, we focus on blockchain abilities to track the COVID-19 data collected from various sources including news, healthcare professionals, researchers etc, verify and append them in a secure and trusted distributed ledger. Thus, we propose a generic framework using Ethereum smart contracts and oracles to track real-time data related to the number of new cases, deaths and recovered cases obtained from trusted sources. We present detailed algorithms that capture the interactions between stakeholders in the network. The smart contract code was developed and tested in Remix environment. We present the cost and security analysis incurred by the stakeholders and highlight the challenges and future directions of our work. Our work demonstrates that the proposed solution is economically feasible and ensures data integrity, security, transparency, data traceability among stakeholders. </p>

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How Can Blockchain Help People in the Event of Pandemics Such as the COVID-19?

Cited by 79 publications

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The role of 5G for digital healthcare against COVID-19 pandemic: Opportunities and challenges

The role of 5G for digital healthcare against COVID-19 pandemic: Opportunities and challenges

Blockchain for COVID-19: Review, Opportunities, and a Trusted Tracking System

Blockchain for COVID-19: Review, Opportunites and a Trusted Tracking System

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