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3.2 Remote Patient Monitoring
To be able to remotely monitor the status of the patient, remote patient monitoring covers the collection of medical data through mobile devices, body area
sensors and IoT (Internet of Things) devices. Blockchain play an important role
in storing, sharing and retrieving the remotely collected biomedical data.
In this context, Ichikawa et al. [14] present an application where mobile
devices are used to transmit data to a blockchain-based application on Hyperledger Fabric.
Griggs et al. [11] demonstrate how Ethereum smart contracts provides automated interventions in a secure environment by supporting real-time patient
monitoring application. Other proposed approaches present the great potentials of Internet of Things (IoT) in many domains, especially it’s being heavily
exploited and used in e-health. In this direction, Ray et al. propose IoBHealth
[21], a data-flow architecture that combines the IoT with blockchain and can be
used for accessing, storing and managing of e-health data.
3.3 Pharmaceutical Supply Chain
One other identified use case of blockchain is in the pharmaceutical industry.
The delivery of counterfeit or inadequate medications can have critical consequences for the patients. Blockchain technology has been identified as having
the capability to address this problem.
Bocek et al. [4] present Modum.io AG, a startup that uses blockchain to
achieve data immutability. To verify the compliance to quality control temperature requirements, this startup creates public accessibility of the temperature
records of pharmaceutical products during their transportation.
Counterfeit drugs also have been addressed by [5,12,20] where authors prevent counterfeiting by proposing a secure, immutable and traceable pharmaceutical supply chain based on blockchain technology.
With regards to drug regulations issues, Jamil et al. [15] addressed drugs
standardization problems. Authors have highlighted the difficulties to detect
falsified drugs and proposed a blockchain-based solution to detect counterfeits.
While there is a minority of papers that present an implementation of the
proposed system, some interesting reviews discuss pharmaceutical supply chain
issues [9,17].
3.4 Health Insurance Claims
Health Insurance claims are one of healthcare fields that can benefit from
blockchain’s immutability, transparency and auditability of data stored on it.
While Healthcare insurance claim processing is an important area where
blockchain has potentials [10]. However, prototypes implementations of such
systems are very limited. We can find MIStore [26], a blockchain-based medical insurance system that provides medical insurance industry with encrypted
and immutably stored medical insurance data.
R. Ben Fekih and M. Lahami
3.2 Remote Patient Monitoring
To be able to remotely monitor the status of the patient, remote patient monitoring covers the collection of medical data through mobile devices, body area
sensors and IoT (Internet of Things) devices. Blockchain play an important role
in storing, sharing and retrieving the remotely collected biomedical data.
In this context, Ichikawa et al. [14] present an application where mobile
devices are used to transmit data to a blockchain-based application on Hyperledger Fabric.
Griggs et al. [11] demonstrate how Ethereum smart contracts provides automated interventions in a secure environment by supporting real-time patient
monitoring application. Other proposed approaches present the great potentials of Internet of Things (IoT) in many domains, especially it’s being heavily
exploited and used in e-health. In this direction, Ray et al. propose IoBHealth
[21], a data-flow architecture that combines the IoT with blockchain and can be
used for accessing, storing and managing of e-health data.
3.3 Pharmaceutical Supply Chain
One other identified use case of blockchain is in the pharmaceutical industry.
The delivery of counterfeit or inadequate medications can have critical consequences for the patients. Blockchain technology has been identified as having
the capability to address this problem.
Bocek et al. [4] present Modum.io AG, a startup that uses blockchain to
achieve data immutability. To verify the compliance to quality control temperature requirements, this startup creates public accessibility of the temperature
records of pharmaceutical products during their transportation.
Counterfeit drugs also have been addressed by [5,12,20] where authors prevent counterfeiting by proposing a secure, immutable and traceable pharmaceutical supply chain based on blockchain technology.
With regards to drug regulations issues, Jamil et al. [15] addressed drugs
standardization problems. Authors have highlighted the difficulties to detect
falsified drugs and proposed a blockchain-based solution to detect counterfeits.
While there is a minority of papers that present an implementation of the
proposed system, some interesting reviews discuss pharmaceutical supply chain
issues [9,17].
3.4 Health Insurance Claims
Health Insurance claims are one of healthcare fields that can benefit from
blockchain’s immutability, transparency and auditability of data stored on it.
While Healthcare insurance claim processing is an important area where
blockchain has potentials [10]. However, prototypes implementations of such
systems are very limited. We can find MIStore [26], a blockchain-based medical insurance system that provides medical insurance industry with encrypted
and immutably stored medical insurance data.