Mediguard: Blockchain-Enhanced Security for the Internet of Medical Things
摘要
The functionality of smart healthcare systems has been greatly improved by the quickly developing Internet of Medical Things (IoMT), with its cutting-edge real-time services. However, there are significant privacy and security problems with IoMT, which are exacerbated by the wide range of these devices, making it more challenging to provide a unified security solution. Moreover, the prevalent cloud-centric IoMT healthcare systems, which rely on cloud computing for Electronic Health Records (EHR) and medical services, make a decentralized IoMT healthcare model impractical. This study proposes an innovative blockchain-based architecture that ensures decentralized EHR and smart contract-driven service automation while preserving system security and privacy. Cloud-centric IoMT healthcare systems suffer from excessive latency, storage costs, and single point of failure. These issues are resolved by combining a blockchain-based distributed data storage system with the recently suggested hybrid computing paradigm.