ReviewCluster computing2023
Blockchain and COVID-19 pandemic: applications and challenges.
Review in Cluster computing, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.
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12 citing papers in PubMed.
- Predicting COVID-19 patient recovery or mortality using deep neural decision tree and forest.BMC research notes · 2025Article
- Blockchain in Critical Care.Indian journal of critical care medicine : peer-reviewed, official publication of Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine · 2025Review
- Technological trends in epidemic intelligence for infectious disease surveillance: a systematic literature review.PeerJ. Computer science · 2025Article
- Blockchain integration in healthcare: a comprehensive investigation of use cases, performance issues, and mitigation strategies.Frontiers in digital health · 2024Review
- Decision making techniques in mass gathering medicine during the COVID-19 pandemia: a scoping review.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Blockchain for deep learning: review and open challenges.Cluster computing · 2023Article
- Early Diagnosis of COVID-19 Images Using Optimal CNN Hyperparameters.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Block-HPCT: Blockchain Enabled Digital Health Passports and Contact Tracing of Infectious Diseases like COVID-19.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- The role of blockchain technology in telehealth and telemedicine.International journal of medical informatics · 2021Review
- Reducing COVID-19 Cases and Deaths by Applying Blockchain in Vaccination Rollout Management.IEEE open journal of engineering in medicine and biology · 2021Article
- COVID-19 Contact Tracing Using Blockchain.IEEE access : practical innovations, open solutions · 2021Article
- Blockchain-Based Forward Supply Chain and Waste Management for COVID-19 Medical Equipment and Supplies.IEEE access : practical innovations, open solutions · 2021Article
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6 authors.
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Abstract
The year 2020 has witnessed the emergence of coronavirus (COVID-19) that has rapidly spread and adversely affected the global economy, health, and human lives. The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the limitations of existing healthcare systems regarding their inadequacy to timely and efficiently handle public health emergencies. A large portion of today's healthcare systems are centralized and fall short in providing necessary information security and privacy, data immutability, transparency, and traceability features to detect fraud related to COVID-19 vaccination certification, and anti-body testing. Blockchain technology can assist in combating the COVID-19 pandemic by ensuring safe and reliable medical supplies, accurate identification of virus hot spots, and establishing data provenance to verify the genuineness of personal protective equipment. This paper discusses the potential blockchain applications for the COVID-19 pandemic. It presents the high-level design of three blockchain-based systems to enable governments and medical professionals to efficiently handle health emergencies caused by COVID-19. It discusses the important ongoing blockchain-based research projects, use cases, and case studies to demonstrate the adoption of blockchain technology for COVID-19. Finally, it identifies and discusses future research challenges, along with their key causes and guidelines.
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