Novel Model for Hospitalization Tracking based on Smart Contracts and IoT

Abstract

In recent years, fraud and abuse of false health care hospitalizations have become a serious problem, requiring monitoring of hospital bed occupancy. Control will increase the social, health and economic efficiency of health care costs, which in turn will improve the quality of health services. This paper proposes a new model, based on a blockchain. In this model data from sensors located in hospital beds and a fitness tracker for each patient are chronologically recorded. At the same time there are both monitoring the location of the tracker and monitoring the patient's vital signs. The smart contract sends timely signals to stakeholders when the parameters of the sensors exceed the set norms. An experimental implementation of the model on Hyperledger Fabric is presented, which proves the applicability of the model.