Abstract
The year 2020 has shown the quick spread and devastating effect of Coronavirus (COVID-19) on the world economy, health, and human life. Combating the COVID-19 pandemic is crucial. Blockchain technology can assist in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic by assuring safe and reliable medical supplies, accurate identification of virus hot spots, and establishing data provenance to verify genuine personal protective equipment that is decentralized, reliable, traceable, and transparent. A major proportion of current healthcare systems are centralized and are short on privacy and information necessary for the detection of fraud connected to the certification by the COVID-19 vaccine. The quick vaccination rollout and the deployment of a global vaccination campaign are crucial and dependent on the availability of transparent and operational distribution chains, which may be audited by all the necessary parties. Blockchain technology might also be used to assure transparent monitoring, storage, and distribution of COVID19 vaccinations. Smart contracts are built for monitoring and tracking the proper circumstances of vaccine distribution in comparison to safe handling of vaccine producers, informing all network peers. This study aims to investigate the effectiveness of block chain and smart contracts in the health care system. The article presents a model of the decentralized infrastructure of the health care system. The blockchain and intelligent contract technology provided has shown promising results. The proposed solution is economically feasible and ensures data integrity, security, transparency, and traceability. Future work aims to expand the functionalities of smart contracts and the blockchain technology.
Highlights
Blockchain technology recently emerged as an important technology in the digital transformation sector of healthcare, and various research studies discovered that the healthcare ecosystem has blockchain potential
Asma Khatoon et al (2020) used blockchain technology smart contract-based in the program of the healthcare management and demonstrated the application of de-centralization concepts on large-scale data processing in the medical environment, streamlining the complicated medical processes, and medical record handling, which offers auditability, transparency, and interoperability via the smart contracts
The blockchain technology and smart contract have been regarded as possible applications to some challenges encountered by the healthcare industry
Summary
Blockchain technology recently emerged as an important technology in the digital transformation sector of healthcare, and various research studies discovered that the healthcare ecosystem has blockchain potential. The systems of blockchain data management provide services to physicians, healthcare institutions, and patients in the areas of accessing and monitoring of patient records, medical IoT security management, claims and payment processing, transparency and clinical data verification, and financial audit exchanges. Avoiding COVID-19 transmission includes protecting personal data, processing private information, removing third parties, and identity management Such actions increase trust compared to centralized networks because people do not evaluate the credibility of the middleman or other network players. In addition to the distinctive characteristics of smart contracts and blockchain technology, the primary features of blockchain technology lie in the following: its decentralized network, transparency, trusted chain, and unalterable and indestructible potential
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