Abstract
Blockchain is the latest technology which is used in cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin and ether. Blockchain is the decentralized distributed ledger, which is based on the peer-to-peer network method. As the blockchain is mainly developed for implementation in the virtual cryptocurrency such as bitcoin, so its main purpose is clear that is security. Even though the healthcare industry is leading in majority of fields whether it is technology, equipment, researches, medicines, etc. We have even reached to remote locations through IoT devices and but one major thing is still lacking that is security of the data. Huge amount of data is being generated everyday from patient’s medical checkups, treatments, symptoms, etc., which is to be dealt with care as they are very crucial and can be tempered by hackers which can lead to serious problems. Therefore, such critical data must need to be secured with blockchain as it makes it very difficult to tamper with data. This paper deals with the implementation of the blockchain to solve the above-mentioned problems.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
References
Mohanta, B., Soumyashree, S. P., & Jena, D. (2018). An overview of smart contract and use cases in blockchain technology. https://doi.org/10.1109/icccnt.2018.8494045.
Sun, Y., Zhang, R., Wang, X., Gao, K., & Liu, L. (2018). A decentralizing attribute-based signature for healthcare blockchain, pp. 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1109/icccn.2018.8487349.
Le Nguyen, T. (2018). Blockchain in healthcare: A new technology benefit for both patients and doctors, pp. 1–6. https://doi.org/10.23919/picmet.2018.8481969.
Culver, K. (2016). A whitepaper discussing how claims process can be improved. https://www.healthit.gov/sites/default/files/3-47-whitepaperblockchainforclaims_v10.pdf.
Atlam, H., Alenezi, A., Alassafi, M., & Wills, G. (2018). Blockchain with Internet of things: Benefits, challenges and future directions. International Journal of Intelligent Systems and Applications, 10. https://doi.org/10.5815/ijisa.2018.06.05.
Hashemi, S. H., Faghri, F., Rauschy, P., & Campbell, R. H. (2016). World of empowered IoT users. In 2016 IEEE First International Conference on Internet-of-Things Design and Implementation (IoTDI). Das, M. L. (2015). Privacy and security challenges in Internet of things. In Distributed Computing and Internet Technology (pp. 33–48).
On Public and Private Blockchains. (2017). https://blog.ethereum.org/2015/08/07/on-public-and-privateblockchains/.
Rifi, N., Rachkidi, E., Agoulmine, N., & Taher, N. C. (2017). Towards using blockchain technology for eHealth data access management. In 2017 Fourth International Conference on Advances in Biomedical Engineering (ICABME). https://doi.org/10.1109/icabme.2017.8167555.
Blockchain: Opportunities for Health Care. (2016, August). Available: deloitte.com/content/dam/Deloitte/us/Documents/publicsector/us-blockchain-opportunities-for-health-care.pdf.
Ethereum Foundation. (2017). Ethereum project. Retrieved January 3, 2017, from http://www.ethereum.org.
Watanabe, H., Fujimura, S., Nakadaira, A., Miyazaki, Y., Akutsu, A., & Kishigami, J. (2016). Blockchain contract: Securing a blockchain applied to smart contracts. In 2016 IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE). https://doi.org/10.1109/icce.2016.7430693.
Coblenz, M. (2017). Obsidian: A safer blockchain programming language. In 2017 IEEE/ACM 39th International Conference on Software Engineering Companion (ICSE-C). https://doi.org/10.1109/icse-c.2017.150.
Singh, M., Singh, A., & Kim, S. (2018). Blockchain: A game changer for securing IoT data. In 2018 IEEE 4th World Forum on Internet of Things (WF-IoT). https://doi.org/10.1109/wf-iot.2018.8355182.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2020 Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.
About this paper
Cite this paper
Gupta, S., Malhotra, V., Singh, S.N. (2020). Securing IoT-Driven Remote Healthcare Data Through Blockchain. In: Kolhe, M., Tiwari, S., Trivedi, M., Mishra, K. (eds) Advances in Data and Information Sciences. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 94. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-0694-9_6
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-0694-9_6
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Singapore
Print ISBN: 978-981-15-0693-2
Online ISBN: 978-981-15-0694-9
eBook Packages: EngineeringEngineering (R0)