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<p>The recent use of digital Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) in the healthcare domain can surpass the existing limitations in the centralized IT systems, such as the lack of security, access control or immutability of the electronic health information. If we discuss about clinical information, this innovative informatics advance gives back the control to the data owner. In decentralized environments, smart contracts allow trustable agreements grounded by irreversible transactions, which permit transparency and traceability. Moreover, smart contracts are the living heart of the decentralized applications that run on DTL. In this work, our attention is focused on medical equipments that helps health staff to diagnose and treat patients keeping much of their clinical data taken in dynamics. Hence, we propose a smart contract-based decentralized application framework for the management of devices, targeting also medical services, meant to facilitate the interaction of the involved entities. Our testing environment is the Ethereum platform, extensively used recently in the healthcare domain, being itself a smart operating system that allows decentralized applications to run on it.</p>
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The recent use of digital Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) in the healthcare domain can surpass the existing limitations in the centralized IT systems, such as the lack of security, access control or immutability of the electronic health information. If we discuss about clinical information, this innovative informatics advance gives back the control to the data owner. In decentralized environments, smart contracts allow trustable agreements grounded by irreversible transactions, which permit transparency and traceability. Moreover, smart contracts are the living heart of the decentralized applications that run on DTL. In this work, our attention is focused on medical equipments that helps health staff to diagnose and treat patients keeping much of their clinical data taken in dynamics. Hence, we propose a smart contract-based decentralized application framework for the management of devices, targeting also medical services, meant to facilitate the interaction of the involved entities. Our testing environment is the Ethereum platform, extensively used recently in the healthcare domain, being itself a smart operating system that allows decentralized applications to run on it.

Medical Devices Management System Based on Blockchain Technology

“Ştefan cel Mare” University of Suceava

“Grigore T. Popa” University of Medicine and Pharmacy

BULETINUL INSTITUTULUI POLITEHNIC DIN IAȘI. Secția Matematica. Mecanică Teoretică. Fizică

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The recent use of digital Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) in the healthcare domain can surpass the existing limitations in the centralized IT systems, such...

Medical Devices Management System Based on Blockchain Technology

Published Online: Apr 30, 2022

Page range: 27 - 37

Received: Dec 01, 2021

Accepted: Dec 22, 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/bipmf-2021-0018

Keywords
blockchain, medical devices, management system, smart contract

© 2021 Dragoş Ionuţ Vicoveanu et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Medical Devices Management System Based on Blockchain Technology

Published Online: Apr 30, 2022

Page range: 27 - 37

Received: Dec 01, 2021

Accepted: Dec 22, 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/bipmf-2021-0018

Keywordsblockchain, medical devices, management system, smart contract

© 2021 Dragoş Ionuţ Vicoveanu et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Keywords
blockchain, medical devices, management system, smart contract