HealthBlock: A secure blockchain-based healthcare data management system

Zaabar, Bessem; Cheikhrouhou, Omar; Jamil, Faisal; Ammi, Meryem; Abid, Mohamed

doi:10.1016/j.comnet.2021.108500

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“…Furthermore, Nguyen et al [39] recommend an advance to help forecast the extent of the COVID-19 infection and other related pandemics. They advised utilizing AI accompanying blockchain to treat a considerable size of medicinal data with a complicated design.…”

Section: Blockchain and Covid-19 Crisis-previous Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Although there are advantages to blockchain technology that is used in the COVID-19 tracking applications, challenges must be considered when using blockchain in applications. Among these challenges is preserving user data privacy and sensitive information such as national numbers and home addresses [39]. Due to public blockchain platforms (such as Bitcoin), anyone can find out users' data.…”

Section: People's Privacy Preservationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Role of Blockchain Technology in Combating COVID-19 Crisis

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The COVID-19 pandemic has negatively affected aspects of human life and various sectors, especially the health sector. These conditions led to the creation of new patterns of life that people have had to deal with to reduce the spread of the epidemic by committing to social distancing, among others. Therefore, governments and technological organizations had to take advantage of technological developments in the current era to overcome these challenges that were created by these conditions. In this paper, we will discuss the role of the blockchain in combating the COVID-19 crisis. Then we will review the recently recorded blockchain-based research proposals to control the COVID-19 pandemic. Finally, we will highlight the challenges of using blockchain to combat the COVID-19 pandemic and find solutions to mitigate these challenges.

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Section: Blockchain and Covid-19 Crisis-previous Researchmentioning

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Section: People's Privacy Preservationmentioning

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Role of Blockchain Technology in Combating COVID-19 Crisis

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“…In 2021, Zaabar et al [20] proposed a system, HealthBlock, which is based on an architecture that leverages both blockchain and IoT technologies to ensure a secure healthcare management system including Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) and Electronic Health Record (EHR) sharing. The HealthBlock system allows patients to manage their healthcare data securely on their own and its performance evaluation results proves that the performance of our proposed system is far better than the prominent existing ones, as it reduces the mining cost, the latency, and provides a considerable increase in overall throughput.…”

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“…The Chebyshev polynomial T n (x) is a polynomial with x of degree n. The Chebyshev polynomial [20] T n (x): [−1, 1] → [−1, 1] is defined as T n (x) = cos(ncos −1 (x)). The Chebyshev polynomial is defined by the following recurrence relation.…”

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“…As seen above, a lot of research on healthcare information systems that use blockchain technology has been published [11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20]. However, to achieve the mutual authentication, the confidentiality and non-repudiation of data, and other security specifications, most research relies on computationally heavy modular exponential operations or elliptic curve point multiplication operations.…”

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Blockchain-Based Healthcare Information Preservation Using Extended Chaotic Maps for HIPAA Privacy/Security Regulations

2021

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A healthcare information system allows patients and other users to remotely login to medical services to access health data through the Internet. To protect the privacy of patients and security over the public network, secure communication is required. Therefore, the security of data in transmission has been attracting increasing attention. In recent years, blockchain technology has also attracted more attention. Relevant research has been published at a high rate. Most methods of satisfying relevant security-related regulations use modular and exponential calculation. This study proposes a medical care information preservation mechanism that considers the entire process of data storage in devices from wearable devices to mobile devices to medical center servers. The entire process is protected and complies with HIPAA privacy and security regulations. The proposed scheme uses extended chaotic map technology to develop ID-based key negotiation for wearable devices, and thereby reduces the amount of computing that must be carried out by wearable devices and achieve lightness quantify. It also uses the non-tamperability of the blockchain to ensure that the data have not been tampered with, improving data security. The proposed mechanism can resist a variety of attacks and is computationally lighter than the elliptic curve point multiplication that has been used elsewhere, while retaining its security characteristics.

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