Blockchain-Based Healthcare Workflow for Tele-Medical Laboratory in Federated Hospital IoT Clouds

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2020
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Abstract
In a pandemic situation such as that we are living at the time of writing of this paper due to the Covid-19 virus, the need of tele-healthcare service becomes dramatically fundamental to reduce the movement of patients, thence reducing the risk of infection. Leveraging the recent Cloud computing and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies, this paper aims at proposing a tele-medical laboratory service where clinical exams are performed on patients directly in a hospital by technicians through IoT medical devices and results are automatically sent via the hospital Cloud to doctors of federated hospitals for validation and/or consultation. In particular, we discuss a distributed scenario where nurses, technicians and medical doctors belonging to different hospitals cooperate through their federated hospital Clouds to form a virtual health team able to carry out a healthcare workflow in secure fashion leveraging the intrinsic security features of the Blockchain technology. In particular, both public and hybrid Blockchain scenarios are discussed and assessed using the Ethereum platform.
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Authors Antonio Celesti;Armando Ruggeri;Maria Fazio;Antonino Galletta;Massimo Villari;Agata Romano;Celesti, Antonio;Ruggeri, Armando;Fazio, Maria;Galletta, Antonino;Villari, Massimo;Romano, Agata;
Journal sensors
Year 2020
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10.3390/s20092590
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https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/20/9/2590
Keywords
hospital workflow healthcare cloud blockchain iot smart contract federation

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