Abstract
The Internet of Things (IoT) is used to improve traditional healthcare systems in different aspects, including monitoring patients’ behaviors. Information gathered by sensors in the IoT plays an essential role in healthcare systems. Because of privacy and security issues, the data must be protected against unauthorized changes. On the other hand, Blockchain technology provides a wide range of mechanisms to protect data against changes. Therefore, IoT-based healthcare monitoring using Blockchain constitutes an exciting technological innovation, which may help mitigate security and privacy concerns related to the gathering of information during patient monitoring. In this chapter, the potential applications of IoT–Blockchain systems are studied, and then monitoring mechanisms in healthcare systems are analyzed. To this end, a novel architecture based on recently reported solutions is proposed. The proposed architecture, with the aid of computational power obtained from the IoT, Blockchain and artificial intelligence, can be used in a wide range of solutions aimed at managing the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). In order to show the potential of the proposed architecture, three case studies are presented. At the end of this chapter, other applications of the proposed architecture are summarized, which can be used in pandemic situations.
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