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Blockchain-Based Privacy Preservation for IoT-Enabled Healthcare System

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Abstract

Blockchain technology provides a secure and reliable platform for managing data in various application areas, such as supply chain management, multimedia, financial sector, food sector, Internet of Things (IoT), healthcare, and many more. The recent emergence of blockchain with IoT provides significant growth in the healthcare industry to improve security, privacy, efficiency, and transparency with more business opportunities. Nevertheless, conventional healthcare schemes suffer from various security attacks like collusion, phishing, masquerade, etc. Therefore, a privacy-preserving Distributed Application (DA) is proposed in this paper using blockchain technology to create and maintain healthcare certificates. Here, the distributed application provides an interface between the blockchain network and system objects like healthcare centers, verifiers, and regular authorities to generate and issue medical documents. In addition, it also ensures security by specifying rules using various smart contracts. To evaluate the performance of the proposed scheme, various experimental tests are conducted using the Etherscan tool for measuring operation cost, latency, and processing time. Here, the efficiency of the proposed system is also compared to the existing systems in terms of latency, throughput, and response time. The experimental results and comparative analysis show that the proposed work is more efficient than the existing techniques.

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      cover image ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks
      ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks  Volume 19, Issue 3
      August 2023
      597 pages
      ISSN:1550-4859
      EISSN:1550-4867
      DOI:10.1145/3584865
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      Published: 02 March 2023
      Online AM: 22 December 2022
      Accepted: 15 December 2022
      Revised: 12 October 2022
      Received: 29 September 2021
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