DASS-CARE 2.0: Blockchain-Based Healthcare Framework for Collaborative Diagnosis in CIoMT Ecosystem

Due to current Covid-19 pandemic, several countries enforce lock-down to prevent pandemic outspread. Hence, the mode of delivery of health services shall change as physical visits are not allowed. As such, the need of tele-medicine service and remote diagnosis have become a necessity. To provide reliable, safe, secure, and sustainable tele-medicine consultancy services, the supporting IT infrastructure need to be transformed. Therefore, it is necessary to use new generation of information technologies such as loT, Blockchain, and cloud computing to transform the traditional medical systems to smart healthcare systems. In this paper, we propose a proof of concept (PoC) of an ameliorated version of our DASS-CARE framework that supports decentralized, accessible, scalable, and secure access to healthcare services based on Internet of Medical things (IoMT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI). In this paper, we propose DASS-CARE 2.0 that offers more medical services including: (a) the real time health monitoring, (b) the collaborative and secure access to medical records, (c) the storage of medical history diagnosis and prescriptions, and (d)the patient\u27s discharge and bills\u27 payments. The paper concludes with future changes to the framework that can furnish further services

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

Secure and Trustable Electronic Medical Records Sharing using Blockchain

Electronic medical records (EMRs) are critical, highly sensitive private information in healthcare, and need to be frequently shared among peers. Blockchain provides a shared, immutable and transparent history of all the transactions to build applications with trust, accountability and transparency. This provides a unique opportunity to develop a secure and trustable EMR data management and sharing system using blockchain. In this paper, we present our perspectives on blockchain based healthcare data management, in particular, for EMR data sharing between healthcare providers and for research studies. We propose a framework on managing and sharing EMR data for cancer patient care. In collaboration with Stony Brook University Hospital, we implemented our framework in a prototype that ensures privacy, security, availability, and fine-grained access control over EMR data. The proposed work can significantly reduce the turnaround time for EMR sharing, improve decision making for medical care, and reduce the overall costComment: AMIA 2017 Annual Symposium Proceeding