Kassab Mohamad Hassan, Neto Valdemar Vicente Graciano, Destefanis Giuseppe, Malas Tarek
Pennsylvania State University Malvern PA 19355 USA.
Universidade Federal de Goiás Goiania 74690-900 Brazil.
IT Prof. 2021 Aug 19;23(4):44-50. doi: 10.1109/MITP.2021.3072585. eCollection 2021 Jul 1.
The novel coronavirus that causes the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has spread all over the world at an unprecedented rate. With growing recognition of the distributed nature of health services, the technology of blockchain has recently reached the impetus of the healthcare domain. This article provides: 1) a panoramic overview of existing solutions and scenarios incorporating blockchain to combat COVID-19 in the healthcare domain along with their benefits and challenges; as well as 2) a framework that will facilitate new research activities on this subject.
引发2019冠状病毒病（COVID-19）的新型冠状病毒以前所未有的速度在全球传播。随着对卫生服务分布式性质的认识不断提高，区块链技术最近在医疗领域获得了发展动力。本文提供了：1）对医疗领域中结合区块链抗击COVID-19的现有解决方案和场景及其益处与挑战的全景概述；以及2）一个将促进关于该主题新研究活动的框架。
