区块链和COVID-19大流行:应用和挑战
Raja Wasim Ahmad1,2, Khaled Salah2, Raja Jayaraman3
1College of Engineering and Information Technology, Ajman University, Ajman, UAE.
Cluster computing
|June 26, 2023
概括
区块链技术为COVID-19大流行暴露的医疗保健系统局限性提供了解决方案. 它增强了医疗用品,测试和疫苗接种认证的安全性,隐私性和可追溯性,有助于流行病管理.
科学领域:
- 医疗信息学 医疗信息学
- 区块链技术 区块链技术
- 公共卫生紧急情况管理
背景情况:
- 随着COVID-19的爆发,集中式医疗保健系统的危害性变得越来越明显,尤其是在应对公共卫生紧急情况方面.
- 现有的系统缺乏强大的信息安全,隐私,数据不变性,透明度和可追溯性,阻碍了有效的流行病应对和欺诈检测.
研究的目的:
- 探索区块链技术在打击COVID-19大流行中的潜在应用.
- 为基于区块链的系统提出高级设计,以改善紧急卫生管理.
- 审查当前的区块链研究,用例和与COVID-19相关的案例研究.
主要方法:
- 讨论区块链在确保医疗用品安全,识别病毒热点和验证个人防护设备真实性的能力.
- 针对COVID-19健康紧急情况量身定制的三个基于区块链的系统的概念设计的介绍.
- 在疫情背景下审查和分析现有的区块链研究项目和现实应用.
主要成果:
- 区块链技术可以在流行病期间显著提高数据安全性,来源和医疗保健透明度.
- 拟议的系统旨在提高管理COVID-19相关数据的效率和可靠性,包括疫苗接种和测试认证.
- 许多正在进行的研究项目和案例研究表明,区块链在应对流行病挑战方面日益普及和潜力越来越大.
结论:
- 区块链提供了一个有前途的技术框架,以解决COVID-19大流行暴露的系统性弱点.
- 区块链解决方案的实施可以导致更具弹性,安全和高效的公共卫生紧急管理系统.
- 需要进行未来的研究,以克服已确定的挑战,并充分实现区块链在全球卫生安全方面的潜力.
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