Emerging Role of Block Chain Technology in Maintaining the Privacy of Covid-19 Public Health Record

Abstract

Amid covid-19 outbreak contact tracing becomes an essential tool for protection and connecting to the most possible connections with the infectious patients which leads to addition of high number of individuals data to be recorded in the location wise public health system. The public health records surface complications concerning security, reliability and supervision. Here the novel technology Blockchain is on the track to take over a part to battle the Covid-19 and overthrow the pandemic. This technology affords a solution for the adjustment between public health and private record. Now as blockchain technology has entered the area of possible units against covid-19.The blockchain technology protected anonymized private data in the search for record generated by the pandemic. The utmost valued defence against the Covid-19 is information which includes one’s contacts and connections as well path tracing. However, it derives at a great cost of private data. A blockchain-based covid-19 infected-patient data record would guarantee untampered neutral data with cryptographically secured decentralized data record protection. Moreover, the blockchain acquired knowledge confirms that data records are only used for its planned purpose, as it authenticates the applied algorithms. Additionally, block chain and secure hardware together can eliminate hacks and annoying data-selling. Hence, block chain can efficiently provide data privacy. This paper in the context of block chain introduces Gravity: a distributed protocol for handling the amount of all potential data and the usage of distributed data provisions such as IPFS is inevitable in this charge. Medical-Chain platform for protecting the identities of Covid infected and traced patients and their history. One must be sure of data records to be following HIPPA compliance to use anonymous nature and proper encryption.