The Potential of Blockchain for Transforming the Urgent and Emergency Care

da Silva, Daniela América; dos Santos, Samara Cardoso; Neto, Wilson Cristoni; Coura, Luiz; Lopes Junior, Robison Egydio; Gonçalves, Gildarcio Sousa; Ozório Junior, Jose Crisóstomo; Guimarães, Leonardo; Basilio, Alyson; Kfouri, Fabio; da Fonseca, Breslei Max Reis; Martinez, Juliana F. Pasquini; Gomes, Anderson; da Silva, Paulo Diego Barbosa; Marques, Johnny; Vieira Dias, Luiz Alberto; da Cunha, Adilson Marques d; Tasinaffo, Paulo Marcelo

Home // ICIW 2018, The Thirteenth International Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services // View article

The Potential of Blockchain for Transforming the Urgent and Emergency Care

Authors:
Daniela América da Silva
Samara Cardoso dos Santos
Wilson Cristoni Neto
Luiz Coura
Robison Egydio Lopes Junior
Gildarcio Sousa Gonçalves
Jose Crisóstomo Ozório Junior
Leonardo Guimarães
Alyson Basilio
Fabio Kfouri
Breslei Max Reis da Fonseca
Juliana F. Pasquini Martinez
Anderson Gomes
Paulo Diego Barbosa da Silva
Johnny Marques
Luiz Alberto Vieira Dias
Adilson Marques d da Cunha
Paulo Marcelo Tasinaffo

Keywords: Health Care System; Big Data; Internet of Things; Agile method and testing; Intelligent Systems; Micro-services Architecture; Cloud Computing; Blockchain; interdisciplinarity; Collaborative problem-based learning.

Abstract:
During the 1st Semester of 2018, at the Brazilian Aeronautics Institute of Technology (Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica - ITA), a successful Collaborative Interdisciplinary Problem-Based Learning (Co-IPBL) experience took place. At that time, more than 20 undergrad and graduate students from 3 different courses within just 16 academic weeks had the opportunity of conceptualizing, modeling, developing, and testing a Computer System based upon Big Data, Blockchain Hyperledger, Micro-services, and other emerging technologies for government and private organizations. This Co-IPBL was performed with the participation of a medical technical team from the Hospital of Clinics at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of São Paulo focusing in Urgency and Emergency Care. The purpose of this system was to aggregate data from actors, such as External Regulations of Heath Care, Hospital Internal Regulation, Hospital Emergency, Urgency Care, and Urgency Institutes, by integrating them into just one decision making process, to improve Urgency and Emergency Care. This academic research project was named in Portuguese Soluções Tecnológicas Aplicáveis ao Gerenciamento de Informações Hospitalares Ostensivas com Big Data - STAGIHO-DB, meaning in English "Technological Solutions Applicable for Managing Ostensive Hospital Information with Big Data - TSA4MOHIBD. Differently from other existing university systems, Research Centers, Governmental Agencies, Public or Private systems, this one was academically developed and tested in just 16 calendar weeks, applying Scrum Agile Method and Value Engineering. This research work was stored in a Google site and implemented as a Proof of Concept (PoC), by using emerging technologies, such as the Blockchain Hyperledger, a common database of health care information that doctors and providers could access. It represents one example of how to address the old problem of teaching, learning, designing, and implementing complex intelligent systems to solve health care problems, by collaboratively working with technical teams facing real problems of Urgency and Emergency Health Care.

Pages: 30 to 38

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2018

Publication date: July 22, 2018

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-3972

ISBN: 978-1-61208-651-4

Location: Barcelona, Spain

Dates: from July 22, 2018 to July 26, 2018