ArticlePervasive and mobile computing2021
Is blockchain for Internet of Medical Things a panacea for COVID-19 pandemic?
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- Enhancing Interoperability for a Sustainable, Patient-Centric Health Care Value Chain: Systematic Review for Taxonomy Development.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Pooled it
- The Hyperledger fabric as a Blockchain framework preserves the security of electronic health records.Frontiers in public health · 2023Pooled it
- A computer architecture based on disruptive information technologies for drug management in hospitals.PeerJ. Computer science · 2023Article
- Blockchain Socket Factories with RMI-Enabled Framework for Fine-Grained Healthcare Applications.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Delineating privacy aspects of COVID tracing applications embedded with proximity measurement technologies & digital technologies.Technology in society · 2022Article
- BIoMT-ISeg: Blockchain internet of medical things for intelligent segmentation.Frontiers in physiology · 2022Article
- Special Issue on IoT for Fighting COVID-19.Pervasive and mobile computing · 2021Article
- Blockchain as an enabling technology in the COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic review.Health and technology · 2021Article
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Abstract
The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has deeply influenced the lifestyle of the general public and the healthcare system of the society. As a promising approach to address the emerging challenges caused by the epidemic of infectious diseases like COVID-19, Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) deployed in hospitals, clinics, and healthcare centers can save the diagnosis time and improve the efficiency of medical resources though privacy and security concerns of IoMT stall the wide adoption. In order to tackle the privacy, security, and interoperability issues of IoMT, we propose a framework of blockchain-enabled IoMT by introducing blockchain to incumbent IoMT systems. In this paper, we review the benefits of this architecture and illustrate the opportunities brought by blockchain-enabled IoMT. We also provide use cases of blockchain-enabled IoMT on fighting against the COVID-19 pandemic, including the prevention of infectious diseases, location sharing and contact tracing, and the supply chain of injectable medicines. We also outline future work in this area.
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