A blockchain-based hybrid platform for multimedia data processing in IoT-Healthcare

Blockchain technology must have sparked widespread interest, applications associated with data monitoring, banking sectors, computer security, the Internet of Things, and food chem-istry to the healthcare sector and cognitive science. The use of multimedia in the healthcare archi-tecture also allows for the storage, processing and transmission of patient information in a wide range of formats such as images, text and audio over the Internet using various smart particles. However, managing large amounts of data, including findings and images of each individual, increases human effort and increases protection risks. In this paper, to address these problems by using IoT in healthcare improves the performance of patient care while lowering costs by effi-ciently distributing healthcare resources. Nevertheless, various attackers can cause a variety of risks in IoT devices. To avoid these problems, Blockchain technology has been identified as the most effective method for maintaining the secrecy and security of control systems in real-time. This should provide a security architecture for healthcare multimedia content using blockchain technol-ogy by producing the hash of every information so that any transition or modification in informa-tion, as well as any breaches of medicines, would be evidenced across the whole blockchain platform. (c) 2022 THE AUTHORS. Published by Elsevier BV on behalf of Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

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Blockchain technology has been widely applied in various fields, including data monitoring, banking sectors, computer security, the Internet of Things, food chemistry, healthcare, and cognitive science. In the healthcare sector, the use of IoT can improve patient care while reducing costs, but it also introduces data management and security risks. To address these issues, blockchain technology can ensure the security of healthcare multimedia content and generate hashes for information verification on the whole blockchain platform.