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Is Blockchain for Internet of Medical Things a Panacea for COVID-19 Pandemic?
The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has deeply influenced the lifestyle of
the general public and the healthcare system of the society. As a promising
approach to address the emerging challenges caused by the epidemic of
infectious diseases like COVID-19, Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) deployed
in hospitals, clinics, and healthcare centers can save the diagnosis time and
improve the efficiency of medical resources though privacy and security
concerns of IoMT stall the wide adoption. In order to tackle the privacy,
security, and interoperability issues of IoMT, we propose a framework of
blockchain-enabled IoMT by introducing blockchain to incumbent IoMT systems. In
this paper, we review the benefits of this architecture and illustrate the
opportunities brought by blockchain-enabled IoMT. We also provide use cases of
blockchain-enabled IoMT on fighting against the COVID-19 pandemic, including
the prevention of infectious diseases, location sharing and contact tracing,
and the supply chain of injectable medicines. We also outline future work in
this area.Comment: 15 pages, 8 figure