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Blockchain in e-Health: Review

Authors:
Rees Mangena
Nidhal Taferguennit
Samia Aitouche
Seyf El Islam Boussiouda
Fadhila Djouggane
Farida Mourri

Keywords: blockchain; eHealth; e-Health; telemedecine; EHR; electronic health record

Abstract:
Certain researchers consider the blockchain technology as an Industry 4.1 revolution, because it benefits from the Industry 4.0 revolution and its technologies, in a decentralized manner. It is a revolution in digital world. In this paper, authors addressed a review of the use of blockchain technology in electronic health (eHealth) because of its importance for the comfort of citizens and the promotion of a healthy society, especially after the pandemic experience of COVID-19, where the necessity and the importance of telework and, Information and Communications Technology (ICT) became more essential than ever before. The review begins by the essence of eHealth and the problems encountered in it. It responds to how blockchain can promote eHealth in terms of management of patient data, its privacy, gains in time and because of how it is a facility without a central authority. The decentralized management of the blockchain does not mean a mess or a loss of data; on the contrary, it means the accountability of all members and partners of the blockchain (patient, doctor, medical institution, etc.). This is guaranteed by the good choice of the consensus algorithms to minimize time, energy consumption and consequently minimize costs. Several algorithms and other issues are discussed in this review paper to help researchers and software developers to discover and use the opportunity of blockchain in eHealth. All the used rules consented by the partners of blockchain system for eHealth are automatically applied in the form of smart contracts. These latter allow the treatment of citizens by the same way, without subjectivity and favoritism.

Pages: 29 to 34

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2022

Publication date: June 26, 2022

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4375

ISBN: 978-1-61208-986-7

Location: Porto,Portugal

Dates: from June 26, 2022 to June 30, 2022