TY - GEN
T1 - I-Blockchain
T2 - 9th International Conference on Information Technology in Medicine and Education, ITME 2018
AU - Ito, Kenichi
AU - Tago, Kiichi
AU - Jin, Qun
N1 - Funding Information:
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT The work has been partially supported by 2016–2018 Masaru Ibuka Foundation Research Project on Oriental Medicine.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 IEEE.
PY - 2018/12/26
Y1 - 2018/12/26
N2 - With the rapid development of information and communication technology, a vast amount of personal health data is generated, stored, and utilized in healthcare related services. However, there are many issues remained to be solved, such as data interoperability, security, and privacy concerns. On the other hand, blockchain, a decentralized peer-to-peer digital ledger, has attracted a lot of attention in recent years as a promising technology to protect privacy of personal data. By adopting blockchain, individuals can take advantage of personal health data for better healthcare. In this paper, after briefly summarizing the major features of blockchain, we describe blockchain-empowered solutions for utilization of personal health data in healthcare and discuss issues and challenges. We further propose i-Blockchain, an individual-centric framework for use of personal health data based on an extension of permissioned blockchain, present the basic architecture and protocols, and show several application scenarios.
AB - With the rapid development of information and communication technology, a vast amount of personal health data is generated, stored, and utilized in healthcare related services. However, there are many issues remained to be solved, such as data interoperability, security, and privacy concerns. On the other hand, blockchain, a decentralized peer-to-peer digital ledger, has attracted a lot of attention in recent years as a promising technology to protect privacy of personal data. By adopting blockchain, individuals can take advantage of personal health data for better healthcare. In this paper, after briefly summarizing the major features of blockchain, we describe blockchain-empowered solutions for utilization of personal health data in healthcare and discuss issues and challenges. We further propose i-Blockchain, an individual-centric framework for use of personal health data based on an extension of permissioned blockchain, present the basic architecture and protocols, and show several application scenarios.
KW - Blockchain
KW - Healthcare
KW - Personal health data
KW - Privacy protection
KW - Smart contracts
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U2 - 10.1109/ITME.2018.00186
DO - 10.1109/ITME.2018.00186
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85061335662
T3 - Proceedings - 9th International Conference on Information Technology in Medicine and Education, ITME 2018
SP - 829
EP - 833
BT - Proceedings - 9th International Conference on Information Technology in Medicine and Education, ITME 2018
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Y2 - 19 October 2018 through 21 October 2018
ER -