Journal:A scoping review of integrated blockchain-cloud architecture for healthcare: Applications, challenges, and solutions
| Full article title | A scoping review of integrated blockchain-cloud architecture for healthcare: Applications, challenges, and solutions |
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| Journal | Sensors |
| Author(s) | Ismail, Leila; Meterwala, Huned; Hennebelle, Alain |
| Author affiliation(s) | United Arab Emirates University |
| Primary contact | Email: leila at uaeu dot ac dot ae |
| Editors | Yu, Keping |
| Year published | 2021 |
| Volume and issue | 21(11) |
| Article # | 3753 |
| DOI | 10.3390/s21113753 |
| ISSN | 1424-8220 |
| Distribution license | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International |
| Website | https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/21/11/3753/htm |
| Download | https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/21/11/3753/pdf (PDF) |
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Abstract
Blockchain is a disruptive technology for shaping the next era of healthcare systems striving for efficient and effective patient care. This is thanks to its peer-to-peer, secure, and transparent characteristics. On the other hand, cloud computing made its way into the healthcare system thanks to its elasticity and cost-effective nature. However, cloud-based systems fail to provide a secured and private patient-centric cohesive view to multiple healthcare stakeholders. In this situation, blockchain provides solutions to address security and privacy concerns of the cloud because of its decentralization feature combined with data security and privacy, while cloud provides solutions to the blockchain scalability and efficiency challenges. Therefore a novel paradigm of blockchain-cloud integration (BcC) emerges for the domain of healthcare.
In this paper, we provide an in-depth analysis of the BcC integration for the healthcare system to give the readers the motivations behind the emergence of this new paradigm, while also introducing a classification of existing architectures and their applications for better healthcare. We then review the development platforms and services and highlight the research challenges for the integrated BcC architecture, possible solutions, and future research directions. The results of this paper will be useful for the healthcare industry to design and develop a data management system for better patient care.
Keywords: blockchain, cloud computing, electronic health records, health data analytics, healthcare system, security, privacy
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