{"title":"Enhancing the security of E-Health services in Bangladesh using blockchain technology.","authors":"Chowdhury Akram Hossain, Mohamad Afendee Mohamed, Md Saniat Rahman Zishan, Rabiul Ahasan, Siti Maryam Sharun","doi":"10.1007/s41870-021-00821-9","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The telemedicine service concept was mainly established to benefit the underprivileged people from rural areas of a country. However, due to the low literacy and awareness rates among rural population of Bangladesh, the service is not much effective. This paper represents a study on the awareness of the rural population of telemedicine service in Bangladesh and few key findings indicate how the awareness could be increased. The research also suggests that utilizing blockchain technology can enhance the data security and privacy. The research reveals some of the findings which can raise the awareness and popularity of telemedicine service among rural population. We have proposed implementation of blockchain technology which can vastly improve the security issue.</p>","PeriodicalId":73455,"journal":{"name":"International journal of information technology : an official journal of Bharati Vidyapeeth's Institute of Computer Applications and Management","volume":"14 3","pages":"1179-1185"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8799409/pdf/","citationCount":"14","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"International journal of information technology : an official journal of Bharati Vidyapeeth's Institute of Computer Applications and Management","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s41870-021-00821-9","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"2022/1/29 0:00:00","PubModel":"Epub","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The telemedicine service concept was mainly established to benefit the underprivileged people from rural areas of a country. However, due to the low literacy and awareness rates among rural population of Bangladesh, the service is not much effective. This paper represents a study on the awareness of the rural population of telemedicine service in Bangladesh and few key findings indicate how the awareness could be increased. The research also suggests that utilizing blockchain technology can enhance the data security and privacy. The research reveals some of the findings which can raise the awareness and popularity of telemedicine service among rural population. We have proposed implementation of blockchain technology which can vastly improve the security issue.