Applying Blockchain Technology to Address the Crisis of Trust During the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Applying Blockchain Technology to Address the Crisis of Trust During the COVID-19 Pandemic.
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DOI：
10.2196/20477
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发表时间：
2020-09-22
影响因子：
3.2
通讯作者：
Khurshid A
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作者：
Khurshid A
新冠疫情造成的大量死亡和破坏揭示了现有机构在保护人类健康和福祉方面的不足。缺乏准确及时的数据以及普遍存在的错误信息，都在造成越来越大的危害，并加剧了数据隐私和公共卫生问题之间的紧张关系。
本文的目的是描述区块链如何凭借其分布式信任网络和基于加密技术的安全性，为与数据相关的信任问题提供解决方案。
区块链正以创新的方式得到应用，这些方式与当前的新冠疫情危机相关。我们描述了现有技术在追踪医疗物资和感染患者方面面临的挑战实例，以及区块链技术应用在这些情况下可能会有何帮助。
对区块链技术在医疗保健方面现有和潜在应用的探索表明，区块链的分布式治理结构和保护隐私的特性可用于创建“去信任”系统，从而有助于在抗击新冠疫情过程中缓解维护隐私和满足公共卫生需求之间的紧张关系。
区块链依赖于一个分布式、稳健、安全、保护隐私且不可篡改的记录框架，它能够积极改变信任、价值共享和交易的性质。建议开展全国性的协调行动来探索区块链以解决现有系统的不足，并建立学术界、研究人员、企业和行业之间的合作关系，以加快区块链在医疗保健领域的应用。
The widespread death and disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has revealed deficiencies of existing institutions regarding the protection of human health and well-being. Both a lack of accurate and timely data and pervasive misinformation are causing increasing harm and growing tension between data privacy and public health concerns. This aim of this paper is to describe how blockchain, with its distributed trust networks and cryptography-based security, can provide solutions to data-related trust problems. Blockchain is being applied in innovative ways that are relevant to the current COVID-19 crisis. We describe examples of the challenges faced by existing technologies to track medical supplies and infected patients and how blockchain technology applications may help in these situations. This exploration of existing and potential applications of blockchain technology for medical care shows how the distributed governance structure and privacy-preserving features of blockchain can be used to create “trustless” systems that can help resolve the tension between maintaining privacy and addressing public health needs in the fight against COVID-19. Blockchain relies on a distributed, robust, secure, privacy-preserving, and immutable record framework that can positively transform the nature of trust, value sharing, and transactions. A nationally coordinated effort to explore blockchain to address the deficiencies of existing systems and a partnership of academia, researchers, business, and industry are suggested to expedite the adoption of blockchain in health care.
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