Introducing a Conceptual Framework for Architecting Healthcare 4.0 Systems

Abstract

There is an enormous number of healthcare analytics applications in existence which have been embedded into healthcare systems with varying degrees of success. One of the key challenges is their need for access to sensitive patient data in a healthcare system that has a multitude of healthcare applications. This paper introduces a new theoretical framework as an architecture in which Healthcare 4.0 applications can operate. The framework proposes using Apache Kafka as the core technology for creating data integration pipelines with the goal being to bring standardisation into the healthcare systems. The architecture offers a safe and secure environment in which multiple applications and algorithms from different organisations can seamlessly co-exist.

Blockchain Socket Factories with RMI-Enabled Framework for Fine-Grained Healthcare Applications

“…Security is a critical issue in an available network where many types of nodes are connected, and centralized security on one node cannot give feasible solutions to the applications. Decentralized and autonomous security mechanisms based on blockchain technology have been suggested in [ 4 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 ]. These blockchain-based frameworks improve the application-level abstractions of the Ethereum blockchain for healthcare applications.…”

“…The socket implemented these resource models with RPC and executed the distributed healthcare applications on mobile-fog-cloud networks. Distributed healthcare applications are those in which workloads run on different nodes and store their data on other storage [ 7 , 8 , 9 ].…”

“…Challenges: In practice, the existing blockchain technologies such as Ethereum, Corda, Fabric, and IBM are widely exploited for healthcare applications. However, many research challenges exist in the current blockchain technologies and their approaches to RPC socket architectures [ 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 ] for healthcare applications. (i) The existing client–server architecture based on socket RPC suffers from high processing costs for cloud computing.…”