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Blockchain and COVID-19 pandemic: applications and challenges
The year 2020 has witnessed the emergence of coronavirus (COVID-19) that has rapidly spread and adversely affected the global economy, health, and human lives. The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the limitations of existing healthcare systems regarding their inadequacy to timely and efficiently handle...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10148614/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37359060 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10586-023-04009-7 |
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author | Ahmad, Raja Wasim Salah, Khaled Jayaraman, Raja Yaqoob, Ibrar Ellahham, Samer Omar, Mohammed |
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description | The year 2020 has witnessed the emergence of coronavirus (COVID-19) that has rapidly spread and adversely affected the global economy, health, and human lives. The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the limitations of existing healthcare systems regarding their inadequacy to timely and efficiently handle public health emergencies. A large portion of today’s healthcare systems are centralized and fall short in providing necessary information security and privacy, data immutability, transparency, and traceability features to detect fraud related to COVID-19 vaccination certification, and anti-body testing. Blockchain technology can assist in combating the COVID-19 pandemic by ensuring safe and reliable medical supplies, accurate identification of virus hot spots, and establishing data provenance to verify the genuineness of personal protective equipment. This paper discusses the potential blockchain applications for the COVID-19 pandemic. It presents the high-level design of three blockchain-based systems to enable governments and medical professionals to efficiently handle health emergencies caused by COVID-19. It discusses the important ongoing blockchain-based research projects, use cases, and case studies to demonstrate the adoption of blockchain technology for COVID-19. Finally, it identifies and discusses future research challenges, along with their key causes and guidelines. |
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spelling | pubmed-101486142023-05-01 Blockchain and COVID-19 pandemic: applications and challenges Ahmad, Raja Wasim Salah, Khaled Jayaraman, Raja Yaqoob, Ibrar Ellahham, Samer Omar, Mohammed Cluster Comput Article The year 2020 has witnessed the emergence of coronavirus (COVID-19) that has rapidly spread and adversely affected the global economy, health, and human lives. The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the limitations of existing healthcare systems regarding their inadequacy to timely and efficiently handle public health emergencies. A large portion of today’s healthcare systems are centralized and fall short in providing necessary information security and privacy, data immutability, transparency, and traceability features to detect fraud related to COVID-19 vaccination certification, and anti-body testing. Blockchain technology can assist in combating the COVID-19 pandemic by ensuring safe and reliable medical supplies, accurate identification of virus hot spots, and establishing data provenance to verify the genuineness of personal protective equipment. This paper discusses the potential blockchain applications for the COVID-19 pandemic. It presents the high-level design of three blockchain-based systems to enable governments and medical professionals to efficiently handle health emergencies caused by COVID-19. It discusses the important ongoing blockchain-based research projects, use cases, and case studies to demonstrate the adoption of blockchain technology for COVID-19. Finally, it identifies and discusses future research challenges, along with their key causes and guidelines. Springer US 2023-04-29 /pmc/articles/PMC10148614/ /pubmed/37359060 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10586-023-04009-7 Text en © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2023, Springer Nature or its licensor (e.g. a society or other partner) holds exclusive rights to this article under a publishing agreement with the author(s) or other rightsholder(s); author self-archiving of the accepted manuscript version of this article is solely governed by the terms of such publishing agreement and applicable law. This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic. |
spellingShingle | Article Ahmad, Raja Wasim Salah, Khaled Jayaraman, Raja Yaqoob, Ibrar Ellahham, Samer Omar, Mohammed Blockchain and COVID-19 pandemic: applications and challenges |
title | Blockchain and COVID-19 pandemic: applications and challenges |
title_full | Blockchain and COVID-19 pandemic: applications and challenges |
title_fullStr | Blockchain and COVID-19 pandemic: applications and challenges |
title_full_unstemmed | Blockchain and COVID-19 pandemic: applications and challenges |
title_short | Blockchain and COVID-19 pandemic: applications and challenges |
title_sort | blockchain and covid-19 pandemic: applications and challenges |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10148614/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37359060 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10586-023-04009-7 |
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