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Intelligent Health Care Data Management Using Blockchain: Current Limitation and Future Research Agenda

  • Alevtina Dubovitskaya
  • , Petr Novotny
  • , Scott Thiebes
  • , Ali Sunyaev
  • , Michael Schumacher
  • , Zhigang Xu
  • , Fusheng Wang
  • Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts
  • Swisscom AG
  • IBM
  • Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
  • University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland
  • Stony Brook University

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16 Scopus citations

Abstract

Health care is undergoing a big data revolution, with vast amounts of information supplied from numerous sources, leading to major paradigm shifts including precision medicine and AI-driven health care among others. Yet, there still exist significant barriers before such approaches could be adopted in practice, including data integration and interoperability, data sharing, security and privacy protection, scalability, and policy and regulatory issues. Blockchain provides a unique opportunity to tackle major challenges in health care and biomedical research, such as enabling data sharing and integration for patient-centered care, data provenance allowing verification authenticity of the data, and optimization of some of the health care processes among others. Nevertheless, technological constraints of current blockchain technologies necessitate further research before mass adoption of blockchain-based health care data management is possible. We analyze context-based requirements and capabilities of the available technology and propose a research agenda and new approaches towards achieving intelligent health care data management using blockchain.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationHeterogeneous Data Management, Polystores, and Analytics for Healthcare - VLDB 2019 Workshops, Poly and DMAH, Los Angeles, CA, USA, August 30, 2019, Revised Selected Papers
EditorsVijay Gadepally, Timothy Mattson, Michael Stonebraker, Fusheng Wang, Gang Luo, Yanhui Laing, Alevtina Dubovitskaya
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages277-288
Number of pages12
ISBN (Print)9783030337513
DOIs
StatePublished - 2019
EventInternational Workshops on Polystores and other Systems for Heterogeneous Data, Poly 2018, and Data Management and Analytics for Medicine and Healthcare, DMAH 2018 held in conjunction with the 44th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, VLDB 2018 - Los Angeles, United States
Duration: Aug 30 2018Aug 30 2018

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume11721 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

ConferenceInternational Workshops on Polystores and other Systems for Heterogeneous Data, Poly 2018, and Data Management and Analytics for Medicine and Healthcare, DMAH 2018 held in conjunction with the 44th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, VLDB 2018
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityLos Angeles
Period08/30/1808/30/18

Keywords

  • Blockchain
  • Health care
  • Intelligent data management

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