Blockchain-Based Management of Blood Donation

【Author】 Hawashin, Diana; Mahboobeh, Dunia Amin J.; Salah, Khaled; Jayaraman, Raja; Yaqoob, Ibrar; Debe, Mazin; Ellahham, Samer

【Source】IEEE ACCESS

【影响因子】3.476

【Abstract】Today's a large number of blood donation management systems fall short in providing traceability, immutability, transparency, audit, privacy, and security features. Also, they are vulnerable to the single point of failure problem due to centralization. In this paper, we propose a private Ethereum blockchain-based solution to automate blood donation management in a manner that is decentralized, transparent, traceable, auditable, private, secure, and trustworthy. The proposed solution stores non-critical and large data off-chain using the decentralized storage of the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS). We present the system architecture, sequence diagrams, entity-relationship diagram, and algorithms to briefly explain the working principles of our blood donation management solution. We evaluate the performance of our solution in terms of efficiency and effectiveness through performing security analysis. We make our smart contract code publicly available on Github.

【Keywords】Blood; Blockchains; Supply chains; Security; Medical services; Radiofrequency identification; Testing; Blockchain; private Ethereum; blood donation management; blood bank; traceability; security

【发表时间】2021

【收录时间】2022-01-02

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