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Blockchain in Healthcare: A Decentralized Platform for Digital Health Passport of COVID-19 Based on Vaccination and Immunity Certificates

COVID-19 has become a very transmissible disease that has had a worldwide impact, resulting in a huge number of infections and fatalities. Testing is critical to the pandemic’s successful response because it helps detect illnesses and so attenuate (isolate/cure) them and now vaccination is a life-sa...

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Autores principales: Razzaq, Abdul, Mohsan, Syed Agha Hassnain, Ghayyur, Shahbaz Ahmed Khan, Al-Kahtani, Nouf, Alkahtani, Hend Khalid, Mostafa, Samih M.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9778149/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36553977
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10122453
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author Razzaq, Abdul
Mohsan, Syed Agha Hassnain
Ghayyur, Shahbaz Ahmed Khan
Al-Kahtani, Nouf
Alkahtani, Hend Khalid
Mostafa, Samih M.
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Mohsan, Syed Agha Hassnain
Ghayyur, Shahbaz Ahmed Khan
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description COVID-19 has become a very transmissible disease that has had a worldwide impact, resulting in a huge number of infections and fatalities. Testing is critical to the pandemic’s successful response because it helps detect illnesses and so attenuate (isolate/cure) them and now vaccination is a life-safer innovation against the pandemic which helps to make the immunity system stronger and fight against this infection. Patient-sensitive information, on the other hand, is now held in a centralized or third-party storage paradigm, according to COVID-19. One of the most difficult aspects of using a centralized storage strategy is maintaining patient privacy and system transparency. The application of blockchain technology to support health initiatives that can minimize the spread of COVID-19 infections in the context of accessibility of the system and for verification of digital passports. Only by combining blockchain technology with advanced cryptographic algorithms can a secure and privacy-preserving solution to COVID-19 be provided. In this article, we investigate the issue and propose a blockchain-based solution incorporating conscience identity, encryption, and decentralized storage via interplanetary file systems (IPFS). For COVID-19 test takers and vaccination takers, our solution includes digital health passports (DHP) as a certification of test or vaccination. We explain smart contracts constructed and tested with Ethereum to preserve a DHP for test and vaccine takers, allowing for a prompt and trustworthy response from the necessary medical authorities. We use an immutable trustworthy blockchain to minimize medical facility response times, relieve the transmission of incorrect information, and stop the illness from spreading via DHP. We give a detailed explanation of the proposed solution’s system model, development, and assessment in terms of cost and security. Finally, we put the suggested framework to the test by deploying a smart contract prototype on the Ethereum TESTNET network in a Windows environment. The study’s findings revealed that the suggested method is effective and feasible.
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spelling pubmed-97781492022-12-23 Blockchain in Healthcare: A Decentralized Platform for Digital Health Passport of COVID-19 Based on Vaccination and Immunity Certificates Razzaq, Abdul Mohsan, Syed Agha Hassnain Ghayyur, Shahbaz Ahmed Khan Al-Kahtani, Nouf Alkahtani, Hend Khalid Mostafa, Samih M. Healthcare (Basel) Article COVID-19 has become a very transmissible disease that has had a worldwide impact, resulting in a huge number of infections and fatalities. Testing is critical to the pandemic’s successful response because it helps detect illnesses and so attenuate (isolate/cure) them and now vaccination is a life-safer innovation against the pandemic which helps to make the immunity system stronger and fight against this infection. Patient-sensitive information, on the other hand, is now held in a centralized or third-party storage paradigm, according to COVID-19. One of the most difficult aspects of using a centralized storage strategy is maintaining patient privacy and system transparency. The application of blockchain technology to support health initiatives that can minimize the spread of COVID-19 infections in the context of accessibility of the system and for verification of digital passports. Only by combining blockchain technology with advanced cryptographic algorithms can a secure and privacy-preserving solution to COVID-19 be provided. In this article, we investigate the issue and propose a blockchain-based solution incorporating conscience identity, encryption, and decentralized storage via interplanetary file systems (IPFS). For COVID-19 test takers and vaccination takers, our solution includes digital health passports (DHP) as a certification of test or vaccination. We explain smart contracts constructed and tested with Ethereum to preserve a DHP for test and vaccine takers, allowing for a prompt and trustworthy response from the necessary medical authorities. We use an immutable trustworthy blockchain to minimize medical facility response times, relieve the transmission of incorrect information, and stop the illness from spreading via DHP. We give a detailed explanation of the proposed solution’s system model, development, and assessment in terms of cost and security. Finally, we put the suggested framework to the test by deploying a smart contract prototype on the Ethereum TESTNET network in a Windows environment. The study’s findings revealed that the suggested method is effective and feasible. MDPI 2022-12-05 /pmc/articles/PMC9778149/ /pubmed/36553977 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10122453 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Blockchain in Healthcare: A Decentralized Platform for Digital Health Passport of COVID-19 Based on Vaccination and Immunity Certificates
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title_fullStr Blockchain in Healthcare: A Decentralized Platform for Digital Health Passport of COVID-19 Based on Vaccination and Immunity Certificates
title_full_unstemmed Blockchain in Healthcare: A Decentralized Platform for Digital Health Passport of COVID-19 Based on Vaccination and Immunity Certificates
title_short Blockchain in Healthcare: A Decentralized Platform for Digital Health Passport of COVID-19 Based on Vaccination and Immunity Certificates
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10122453
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