The Emerging Role of Blockchain Technology Applications in Routine Disease Surveillance Systems to Strengthen Global Health Security

被引:33
作者
Chattu, Vijay Kumar [1 ,2 ]
Nanda, Anjali [3 ]
Chattu, Soosanna Kumary [4 ]
Kadri, Syed Manzoor [5 ]
Knight, Andy W. [6 ]
机构
[1] Univ West Indies, Fac Med Sci, Dept Paraclin Sci, St Augustine, Trinidad Tobago
[2] Global Inst Publ Hlth, Dept Publ Hlth Res, Thiruvananthapuram 695024, Kerala, India
[3] Hlth Informat Technol, Pune 411002, Maharashtra, India
[4] Texila Amer Univ, Sch Publ Hlth, Lot 2442, Georgetown, Guyana
[5] Directorate Hlth Serv, Kashmir 180001, India
[6] Univ Alberta, Dept Polit Sci, Edmonton, AB T6G 2R3, Canada
关键词
Blockchain; disease surveillance; infectious diseases; global health security; Epidemics; public health; health care; Quality of Experience;
D O I
10.3390/bdcc3020025
中图分类号
TP18 [人工智能理论];
学科分类号
081104 ; 0812 ; 0835 ; 1405 ;
摘要
Blockchain technology has an enormous scope to revamp the healthcare system in many ways as it improves the quality of healthcare by data sharing among all the participants, selective privacy and ensuring data safety. This paper explores the basics of blockchain, its applications, quality of experience and advantages in disease surveillance over the other widely used real-time and machine learning techniques. The other real-time surveillance systems lack scalability, security, interoperability, thus making blockchain as a choice for surveillance. Blockchain offers the capability of enhancing global health security and also can ensure the anonymity of patient data thereby aiding in healthcare research. The recent epidemics of re-emerging infections such as Ebola and Zika have raised many concerns regarding health security which resulted in strengthening the surveillance systems. We also discuss how blockchains can help in identifying the threats early and reporting them to health authorities for taking early preventive measures. Since the Global Health Security Agenda addresses global public health threats (both infectious and NCDs); strengthen the workforce and the systems; detect and respond rapidly and effectively to the disease threats; and elevate global health security as a priority. The blockchain has enormous potential to disrupt many current practices in traditional disease surveillance and health care research.
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