Integrating Blockchain with IoT for a Secure Healthcare Digital System

Nada Chendeb (1) , Nour Khaled (1) , Nazim Agoulmine (2)

1 Faculty of Engineering
2 IBISC - Informatique, BioInformatique, Systèmes Complexes

In the past few years, the number of wireless connected devices has increased to a number that could reach billions in the next few years. While cloud computing is being seen as the solution to process this data, security challenges could not be addressed solely with this technology. Blockchain is the technology that underpins Bitcoin, it introduces manners to provide a fully autonomous secure system, by using smart contracts. Multi-layer BC is a very powerful solution to overcome many IoT challenges. This paper illustrates how Blockchain works, what are the IoT challenges, and how it can be integrated with Blockchain. We proposed in this work a multi-layer IoT/blockchain based architecture customized and designed to be used in the medical field. With this information interact many parties including the doctors, health service providers, insurance companies and pharmacies. The ultimate goal being to solve the problem of scalability and performance.

Domains: Networking and Internet Architecture [cs.NI]; Emerging Technologies [cs.ET]

Nada Chendeb, Nour Khaled, Nazim Agoulmine. Integrating Blockchain with IoT for a Secure Healthcare Digital System. 8th International Workshop on ADVANCEs in ICT Infrastructures and Services (ADVANCE 2020), Candy E. Sansores, Universidad del Caribe, Mexico, Nazim Agoulmine, IBISC Lab, University of Evry - Paris-Saclay University, Jan 2020, Cancún, Mexico. pp.1--8. ⟨hal-02495262⟩