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Using IoT and Blockchain for Healthcare Enhancement

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Modern technologies such as Internet of Things (IoT) and blockchain have a valuable contribution in improving healthcare services. This paper aims at achieving and democratizing healthcare services by providing healthcare-as-a-service. It was achieved by developing medical devices with sensors for healthcare. It connects the medical devices such as temperature sensor to the network of medical physicians and nurses through the cloud. This paper presented integration between IoT and Blockchain as a secured platform to mitigate nurses’ shortage. Blockchain was used in the proposed operational framework to store and validate patients’ records. Remarkable results were found in decreasing the gap in the number of nurses for large scale of patients. Prototypical implementation of this proposed healthcare service was presented with all technical requirements to make it applicable easily.

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  1. Computer Sciences Department, Faculty of Computer and Information, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt

    Mohamed A. El-dosuky

  2. Information Systems Department, Faculty of Computer and Information, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt

    Gamal H. Eladl

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  1. Departamento de Engenharia Informática, Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

    Álvaro Rocha

  2. College of Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA

    Hojjat Adeli

  3. FEUP, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal

    Luís Paulo Reis

  4. DIMES, Università della Calabria, Arcavacata, Italy

    Sandra Costanzo

  5. Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Montenegro, Podgorica, Montenegro

    Irena Orovic

  6. Universidade Portucalense, Porto, Portugal

    Fernando Moreira

Appendix A. Blockchain Implementation in Java

Appendix A. Blockchain Implementation in Java

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El-dosuky, M.A., Eladl, G.H. (2020). Using IoT and Blockchain for Healthcare Enhancement. In: Rocha, Á., Adeli, H., Reis, L., Costanzo, S., Orovic, I., Moreira, F. (eds) Trends and Innovations in Information Systems and Technologies. WorldCIST 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1159. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45688-7_63

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