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A Lightweight Blockchain and Fog-enabled Secure Remote Patient Monitoring System
IoT has enabled the rapid growth of smart remote healthcare applications.
These IoT-based remote healthcare applications deliver fast and preventive
medical services to patients at risk or with chronic diseases. However,
ensuring data security and patient privacy while exchanging sensitive medical
data among medical IoT devices is still a significant concern in remote
healthcare applications. Altered or corrupted medical data may cause wrong
treatment and create grave health issues for patients. Moreover, current remote
medical applications' efficiency and response time need to be addressed and
improved. Considering the need for secure and efficient patient care, this
paper proposes a lightweight Blockchain-based and Fog-enabled remote patient
monitoring system that provides a high level of security and efficient response
time. Simulation results and security analysis show that the proposed
lightweight blockchain architecture fits the resource-constrained IoT devices
well and is secure against attacks. Moreover, the augmentation of Fog computing
improved the responsiveness of the remote patient monitoring system by 40%.Comment: 32 pages, 13 figures, 5 tables, accepted by Elsevier "Internet of
Things; Engineering Cyber Physical Human Systems" journal on January 9, 202
Dwarna : a blockchain solution for dynamic consent in biobanking
Dynamic consent aims to empower research partners and facilitate active participation in the research process. Used within
the context of biobanking, it gives individuals access to information and control to determine how and where their
biospecimens and data should be used. We present Dwarna—a web portal for ‘dynamic consent’ that acts as a hub
connecting the different stakeholders of the Malta Biobank: biobank managers, researchers, research partners, and the
general public. The portal stores research partners’ consent in a blockchain to create an immutable audit trail of research
partners’ consent changes. Dwarna’s structure also presents a solution to the European Union’s General Data Protection
Regulation’s right to erasure—a right that is seemingly incompatible with the blockchain model. Dwarna’s transparent
structure increases trustworthiness in the biobanking process by giving research partners more control over which research
studies they participate in, by facilitating the withdrawal of consent and by making it possible to request that the biospecimen
and associated data are destroyed.peer-reviewe
Critical issues in Leveraging Blockchain in Healthcare Sector
Blockchain innovation has brought various benefits to the healthcare sector. Utilizing blockchains in clinical contexts will reduce handling time since when a patient signs up for a review, the complete collected data will be accessible at once because of accessibility on the distributed ledger. Also, specialists will not need to stress over the patients giving them a legit clinical history, because of their capacity to progressively see the correct, credible, and quality source-recorded information. It eliminates any likely clinical history mistakes. Similarly, the patients will not need to stress over having a second assessment from another specialist, because of the straightforwardness of the information. Having patient records on a blockchain organization will prompt individuals to know and associate with various others, across the globe, with similar ailments as they have, which is not only valuable for their well-being, but also make the patients feel acknowledged, upheld, and have reinforced determination to battle the ailment. Patients will have total independence regarding their information, and they will choose who to impart the information to. In this paper, we present all the challenges and critical issues associated with implementing blockchains in the healthcare sector
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