GlobeChain: An Interoperable Blockchain for Global Sharing of Healthcare Data-A COVID-19 Perspective

Contagious diseases are prevalent even in the current era of advanced technology. A uniformed initiative is required to build a reliable interactive information exchange service targeting vaccination data management and other medical services. The conventional data exchange mechanism is centralized, creating many vulnerable issues such as a single point failure, data leakage, access control, etc. This article introduces a Blockchain-based medical data-sharing framework (called GlobeChain) to overcome the technical challenges to handle the outbreak records. The challenges that might arise due to the proposed Blockchain-based framework are also presented as a future direction that grabs the proposal's effectiveness.

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Contagious diseases remain prevalent in the current era, calling for a unified initiative to establish a reliable information exchange service. The centralized conventional data exchange mechanism poses risks, hence introducing a Blockchain-based medical data-sharing framework can help address these issues.