Optimized Blockchain Model for Internet of Things based Healthcare Applications
This addresses security and privacy issues for healthcare providers and patients in IoT systems, but it appears incremental as it builds on existing blockchain concepts without major innovations.
The paper tackles the problem of securing patient health data in IoT healthcare applications by applying blockchain techniques, resulting in a proposed model that enables secure and private alerts for authenticated providers while identifying practical obstacles.
There continues to be a recent push to taking the cryptocurrency based ledger system known as Blockchain and applying its techniques to non-financial applications. One of the main areas for application remains Internet of Things (IoT) as we see many areas of improvement as we move into an age of smart cities. In this paper, we examine an initial look at applying the key aspects of Blockchain to a health application network where patients health data can be used to create alerts important to authenticated healthcare providers in a secure and private manner. This paper also presents the benefits and also practical obstacles of the blockchain-based security approaches in IoT.