Special Issue on Disruptive Innovations in Medical Blockchain

Data related to a patient’s medical conditions are crucial for determining their symptoms and appropriate treatments. Finding ways to safely share and explore these data using existing technological advancements is an important area of research. For instance, using the cloud to store, process and retrieve medical data while ensuring privacy, security and data origin. Blockchain is one of the most promising technologies for addressing these issues.

Blockchain is a hash-chain network where all the nodes are connected chronologically without any central administration. Blockchain is decentralised, highly immutable and authenticated, which supports safe sharing  of medical data among health care organisations. It also aims to minimise and rectify the challenges faced by health care organisations and medical practitioners in hierarchical prognosis.

This special issue focuses on frontier topics in computer science, applied engineering and medical blockchain. The aim is to feature existing blockchain research in the field of health care, as well as novel blockchain techniques for new medical data challenges.

Topics Covered:

• Management and acknowledgement of medical devices
• Efficient transfer of medical data using blockchain
• Robust, decentralised medical treatment enhancements
• Privacy-preserving analysis of blockchain
• Decentralised monitoring of IoT health care devices
• Medical blockchain anonymity
• Innovative technologies for flexible operations of heath care sectors
• Scalability, security and robust blockchain
• Big data and blockchain management
• Advancement and fraud identification in medical claims
• Biomedical advances and related privacy-preserving analysis
• Digital tokens for a complete medical checkup process
• Artificial intelligence and blockchain
• Smart contracts for pharmaceutical management
• Blockchain Dapp architectures
• A decentralised blockchain model for bill transmission
• Access control techniques in blockchain data management
• Applications of medical blockchain techniques

Important Deadlines:

• Submission deadline: 30 March 2021
• Publication date: 31 May 2021

Submission Instructions:

Please read the Guide for Authors before submitting. All articles should be submitted online, please select VSI: Disruptive Innovations on submission.

Submissions must not be currently under review or published elsewhere. Conference papers may be submitted only if the paper is completely re-written or substantially (70%) extended. For additional questions, please contact the guest editors. All submitted papers will be peer reviewed using the normal standards of International Journal of Intelligent Networks.

Guest Editors:

• Managing Guest Editor: Dr. S. Sountharrajan, VIT Bhopal University, India. Email: s.sountharrajan@vitbhopal.ac.in  
• Dr. Lalit Garg, University of Malta, Malta. Email: lalit.garg@um.edu.mt
• Dr. Thierry Oscar Edoh, University of Bonn, Germany. Email: Thierry.edoh@tum.de