A Blockchain Approach Applied to a Teledermatology Platform in the Sardinian Region (Italy)

Mannaro, Katiuscia; Baralla, Gavina; Pinna, Andrea; Ibba, Simona

doi:10.3390/info9020044

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“…In the former model, patients can electronically communicate to doctors to discuss their health conditions; whereas, in the latter model, the caregivers can remotely participate in the consultation and medical education services (e.g., patient surgery) through tools that support audio and video conferencing. In the electronic face-to-face consultation, asynchronous transfer of videos and images (that might include x-rays or other diagnostic test results) can assist caregivers to accurately diagnose the health condition of the patients [5,30]. In existing telemedicine systems, health organizations are unable to manage the silos of patient health records due to limited data sharing among each other.…”

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“…MedCredits: MedCredits is an Ethereum-based system that assists physicians in diagnosing dermatology patients using telemedicine service. It is a secure system that protects users from malicious entities by implementing reputationbased systems to incentivize and penalize honest and dishonest behaviors, respectively [30]. Moreover, it has implemented a Token-Curated Registry (TCR) service that enables experts in the network by validating the licenses of physicians to permit only high-quality physicians to join the platform [51].…”

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“…In response, the patient can apply for a second health opinion (through the case validation contract, if required). The case validation smart contract sends the case to another physician for seeking a second opinion [30,51,52].…”

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The Role of Blockchain Technology in Telehealth and Telemedicine

Ahmad¹,

Salah²,

Jayaraman³

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<div><b>Objectives: </b>Telehealth and telemedicine systems aim to deliver remote healthcare services to mitigate the spread of COVID‐19. Also, they can help to manage scarce healthcare resources to control the massive burden of COVID-19 patients in hospitals. However, a large portion of today's telehealth and telemedicine systems are centralized and fall short of providing necessary information security and privacy, operational transparency, health records immutability, and traceability to detect frauds related to patients' insurance claims and physician credentials.</div><div><b>Methods: </b>The current study has explored the potential opportunities and adaptability challenges for blockchain technology in telehealth and telemedicine sector. It has explored the key role that blockchain technology can play to provide necessary information security and privacy, operational transparency, health records immutability, and traceability to detect frauds related to patients' insurance claims and physician credentials.</div><div><b>Results: </b>Blockchain technology can improve telehealth and telemedicine services by offering remote healthcare services in a manner that is decentralized, tamper-proof, transparent, traceable, reliable, trustful, and secure. It enables health professionals to accurately identify frauds related to physician educational credentials and medical testing kits commonly used for home-based diagnosis.</div><div><b>Conclusions: </b>Wide deployment of blockchain in telehealth and telemedicine technology is still in its infancy. Several challenges and research problems need to be resolved to enable the widespread adoption of blockchain technology in telehealth and telemedicine systems.</div><div> </div><div><br></div>

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Section: B Traceability Of Remote Treatmentmentioning

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The Role of Blockchain Technology in Telehealth and Telemedicine

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Salah²,

Jayaraman³

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“…To guarantee the authenticity, integrity and confidentiality of data exchanged between network nodes on the access, core and external networks, we propose to adopt keyless signature infrastructure blockchain (KSIBC). KSIBC is currently under investigation for securing eHealth systems (Mannaro et al, 2018). A new security feature in the 3GPP architecture is the SEPP node, whose function is to mitigate the security vulnerabilities that occur during inter-exchange/roaming between networks of different mobile network operators.…”

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Security architecture for a 5G mHealth system

Malila

Mutsvangwa

2019

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Global health challenges and the proliferation of mobile technologies have been key in the adoption of mHealth for provision of low-cost and equitable healthcare. Evolution of mobile networks to 5G is expected to revolutionise healthcare service delivery due to the stringent performance requirements imposed on 5G. However, because of the open nature of 5G systems, securing patient health information has been identified as a significant barrier to the full adoption of mHealth. In this paper, we propose a security architecture for an mHealth system based on a review of standard principles and guidelines for designing 5G security systems. We present a structured approach for developing and implementing an end-to-end 5G mHealth security system. We propose a security architecture that can be realised using keyless signature infrastructure Blockchain and X-tee technology to secure the communication system including hospital and third-party health data networks, physical layer security for securing the wireless interface in access networks, physical unclonable functions, and a trusted execution environment for securing end-user devices. We propose the adoption of network slicing for isolating health systems from other 5G industry verticals. We define system domains that are used to identify security threats and propose mechanisms to mitigate these threats.

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“…The third and last paper is entitled "A Blockchain Approach Applied to a Teledermatology Platform in the Sardinian Region" and authored by Katiuscia Mannaro, Gavina Baralla, Andrea Pinna, and Simona Ibba [4]. The authors describe the main points of a teledermatology project that they have implemented to promote and facilitate the diagnosis of skin diseases, and improve the quality of care for rural and remote areas.…”

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