Secure and Fast Emergency Road Healthcare Service Based on Blockchain Technology for Smart Cities

Road accidents occur everywhere in the world and the numbers of people dead or injured increase from time to time. People hope that emergency vehicles and medical staff will arrive as soon as possible at the scene of the accident. The development of recent technologies such as the Internet of Things...

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Published in:Sustainability 2023-03, Vol.15 (7), p.5748
Main Authors: Ksibi, Amel, Mhamdi, Halima, Ayadi, Manel, Almuqren, Latifah, Alqahtani, Mohammed S, Ansari, Mohd Dilshad, Sharma, Ashutosh, Hedi, Sakli
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Access control
Ambulances
Archives & records
Blockchain
Communication
Confidentiality
Currency transactions
Data integrity
Decision making
Efficiency
Electronic health records
Electronic medical records
Emergency medical services
Emergency vehicles
Health aspects
Health care
Health services
Health services administration
Internet
Internet of medical things
Internet of Things
Internet of Vehicles
Medical equipment
Medical records
Patients
Privacy
Roads
Smart cities
Sustainability
Systems design
Technology
Technology application
Traffic accidents
Traffic accidents & safety
Traffic engineering
Vehicles
Vital signs
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Summary:Road accidents occur everywhere in the world and the numbers of people dead or injured increase from time to time. People hope that emergency vehicles and medical staff will arrive as soon as possible at the scene of the accident. The development of recent technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT) allows us to find solutions to ensure rapid movement by road in emergencies. Integrating the healthcare sector and smart vehicles, IoT ensures this objective. This integration gives rise to two paradigms: the Internet of Vehicles (IoV) and the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT), where smart devices collect medical data from patients and transmit them to medical staff in real time. These data are extremely sensitive and must be managed securely. This paper proposes a system design that brings together the three concepts of Blockchain technology (BC), IoMT and IoV to address the problem mentioned above. The designed system is composed of three main parts: a list of hospitals, patient electronic medical record (EMR) and a network of connected ambulances. It allows the road user in the case of an accident to report their position to the nearby health services and ambulances.
ISSN:2071-1050
2071-1050
DOI:10.3390/su15075748