Adoption of Blockchain-Fog-IoMT Framework in Healthcare 4.0 Digital Revolution

Abstract

Healthcare is the fastest growing sector that implements the latest technologies for providing healthcare services. Most of the IoMT healthcare systems are using cloud-based systems for providing smart healthcare services. Fog Computing is introduced in loT-based healthcare environments to reduce the additional computing and storage required by cloud servers. Healthcare 4.0 focuses on a smart environment that guarantees security, privacy, reliability, integrity, easy access, trust, transparency, faster processing, etc. Blockchain-integrated IoT-fog systems are used for providing security, and privacy and avoiding single-point failure in healthcare systems. In this paper, we have proposed a Blockchain-Fog-IoMT framework for faster processing of healthcare data and reducing the storage and processing overhead on the cloud server. We have also minimized the latency, resource utilization and response time with the implementation of fog computing at the nearest network of the user devices. Ethereum Blockchain and smart contract has been integrated with our system to address the security, privacy, scalability, transparency, reliability, and interoperability challenges. Block validation and transaction validation are done with the use of proof-of-work. Moreover, this model helps to create a decentralized platform for providing healthcare services, facilitates remote-patient tracking and monitoring, and is cost-effective.