{"title":"Blockchain-based distributed platform for accountable medical data sharing","authors":"A. Khan, A. Anjum","doi":"10.1145/3492323.3503506","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"In the recent years, blockchain has been widely studied and applied as a solution to address various healthcare challenges associated with the legacy systems. Availability of a trusted healthcare ecosystem for accountable medical data sharing still remains a problem. This paper discusses the potential applications of blockchain in healthcare and proposes a blockchain-based framework to facilitate health data availability and sharing. It identifies the implementation challenges of such a system and discusses their relationship with blockchain's intrinsic design and characteristics. In the end, this paper delineates the future research directions required to overcome the challenges in realizing a blockchain-based platform for accountable medical data management and sharing.","PeriodicalId":440884,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 14th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing Companion","volume":"79 10","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2021-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Proceedings of the 14th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing Companion","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3492323.3503506","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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In the recent years, blockchain has been widely studied and applied as a solution to address various healthcare challenges associated with the legacy systems. Availability of a trusted healthcare ecosystem for accountable medical data sharing still remains a problem. This paper discusses the potential applications of blockchain in healthcare and proposes a blockchain-based framework to facilitate health data availability and sharing. It identifies the implementation challenges of such a system and discusses their relationship with blockchain's intrinsic design and characteristics. In the end, this paper delineates the future research directions required to overcome the challenges in realizing a blockchain-based platform for accountable medical data management and sharing.