TY - JOUR
T1 - SsHealth
T2 - Toward secure, blockchain-enabled healthcare systems
AU - Abdellatif, Alaa Awad
AU - Al-Marridi, Abeer Z.
AU - Mohamed, Amr
AU - Erbad, Aiman
AU - Chiasserini, Carla Fabiana
AU - Refaey, Ahmed
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 1986-2012 IEEE.
PY - 2020/7/1
Y1 - 2020/7/1
N2 - The future of healthcare systems is being shaped by incorporating emerged technological innovations to drive new models for patient care. By acquiring, integrating, analyzing, and exchanging medical data at different system levels, new practices can be introduced, offering a radical improvement to healthcare services. This article presents a novel smart and secure Healthcare system (ssHealth), which, leveraging advances in edge computing and blockchain technologies, permits epidemics discovering, remote monitoring, and fast emergency response. The proposed system also allows for secure medical data exchange among local healthcare entities, thus realizing the integration of multiple national and international entities and enabling the correlation of critical medical events for, for example, emerging epidemics management and control. In particular, we develop a blockchain-based architecture and enable a flexible configuration thereof, which optimize medical data sharing between different health entities and fulfil the diverse levels of Quality of Service (QoS) that ssHealth may require. Finally, we highlight the benefits of the proposed ssHealth system and possible directions for future research.
AB - The future of healthcare systems is being shaped by incorporating emerged technological innovations to drive new models for patient care. By acquiring, integrating, analyzing, and exchanging medical data at different system levels, new practices can be introduced, offering a radical improvement to healthcare services. This article presents a novel smart and secure Healthcare system (ssHealth), which, leveraging advances in edge computing and blockchain technologies, permits epidemics discovering, remote monitoring, and fast emergency response. The proposed system also allows for secure medical data exchange among local healthcare entities, thus realizing the integration of multiple national and international entities and enabling the correlation of critical medical events for, for example, emerging epidemics management and control. In particular, we develop a blockchain-based architecture and enable a flexible configuration thereof, which optimize medical data sharing between different health entities and fulfil the diverse levels of Quality of Service (QoS) that ssHealth may require. Finally, we highlight the benefits of the proposed ssHealth system and possible directions for future research.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85083768804&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/MNET.011.1900553
DO - 10.1109/MNET.011.1900553
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85083768804
SN - 0890-8044
VL - 34
SP - 312
EP - 319
JO - IEEE Network
JF - IEEE Network
IS - 4
M1 - 9076126
ER -