Privacy Protection for Blockchain-Based Healthcare IoT Systems: A Survey

【Author】 Qi, Minfeng; Wang, Ziyuan; Han, Qing-Long; Zhang, Jun; Chen, Shiping; Xiang, Yang

【Source】IEEE-CAA JOURNAL OF AUTOMATICA SINICA

【影响因子】7.847

【Abstract】To enable precision medicine and remote patient monitoring, internet of healthcare things (IoHT) has gained significant interest as a promising technique. With the widespread use of IoHT, nonetheless, privacy infringements such as IoHT data leakage have raised serious public concerns. On the other side, blockchain and distributed ledger technologies have demonstrated great potential for enhancing trustworthiness and privacy protection for IoHT systems. In this survey, a holistic review of existing blockchain-based IoHT systems is conducted to indicate the feasibility of combining blockchain and IoHT in privacy protection. In addition, various types of privacy challenges in IoHT are identified by examining general data protection regulation (GDPR). More importantly, an associated study of cutting-edge privacy-preserving techniques for the identified IoHT privacy challenges is presented. Finally, several challenges in four promising research areas for blockchain-based IoHT systems are pointed out, with the intent of motivating researchers working in these fields to develop possible solutions.

【Keywords】Blockchain; internet of healthcare things (IoHT); privacy-preserving techniques (PPTs); Blockchain; internet of healthcare things (IoHT); privacy-preserving techniques (PPTs)

【发表时间】2024 AUG

【收录时间】2024-07-29

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