TY - GEN
T1 - A Layered Blockchain Framework for Healthcare and Genomics
AU - Shuaib, Khaled
AU - Saleous, Heba
AU - Zaki, Nazar
AU - Dankar, Fida
N1 - Funding Information:
This research is funded by grant number 31R180 from Zayed Bin Sultan Center for Health Sciences, United Arab Emirates University.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 IEEE.
PY - 2020/9
Y1 - 2020/9
N2 - Scientific research in the area of human genomics is no longer restricted to scientists. With the introduction of companies such as 23andme and Ancestry, the interested people of the public have been getting involved in genetic studies. However, the nature of the data being collected and its link to confidential, personal information will need to be properly secured and complete to prevent the same issues faced by electronic medical records in healthcare: fragmentation and risk of disclosure. By integrating blockchains with genomics and healthcare, patients and research participants will be able to participate in their own healthcare and research, increasing patient and user centricity. In this paper, a layered architecture of how blockchains can be implemented in genomics and healthcare is proposed. The proposed architecture shows how communication between users, researchers, and medical professionals can be improved while encouraging genetic research while improving security and privacy.
AB - Scientific research in the area of human genomics is no longer restricted to scientists. With the introduction of companies such as 23andme and Ancestry, the interested people of the public have been getting involved in genetic studies. However, the nature of the data being collected and its link to confidential, personal information will need to be properly secured and complete to prevent the same issues faced by electronic medical records in healthcare: fragmentation and risk of disclosure. By integrating blockchains with genomics and healthcare, patients and research participants will be able to participate in their own healthcare and research, increasing patient and user centricity. In this paper, a layered architecture of how blockchains can be implemented in genomics and healthcare is proposed. The proposed architecture shows how communication between users, researchers, and medical professionals can be improved while encouraging genetic research while improving security and privacy.
KW - Blockchains
KW - Genomics
KW - Health care
KW - Medical Records
KW - Privacy
KW - Smart Contracts
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U2 - 10.1109/SMARTCOMP50058.2020.00040
DO - 10.1109/SMARTCOMP50058.2020.00040
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85097338788
T3 - Proceedings - 2020 IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing, SMARTCOMP 2020
SP - 156
EP - 163
BT - Proceedings - 2020 IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing, SMARTCOMP 2020
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 6th IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing, SMARTCOMP 2020
Y2 - 14 September 2020 through 17 September 2020
ER -