Enhancing Traceability of Infectious Diseases: A Blockchain-Based Approach

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Highlights：

• Develop a Blockchain-based method for disease information tracing with key components including infectious disease information collection, information chain-style storage, and information query.

• Demonstrate the proposed method can promptly collect disease information and form the disease information time series blockchain.

• Infectious disease information on the blockchain can be monitored and queried any time, thereby greatly facilitating the tracing of the propagation path of infectious diseases.

摘要

•Develop a Blockchain-based method for disease information tracing with key components including infectious disease information collection, information chain-style storage, and information query.•Demonstrate the proposed method can promptly collect disease information and form the disease information time series blockchain.•Infectious disease information on the blockchain can be monitored and queried any time, thereby greatly facilitating the tracing of the propagation path of infectious diseases.

论文关键词：Blockchain,Distributed systems,Infectious diseases,Timestamp,Traceability

论文评审过程：Received 13 July 2020, Revised 25 February 2021, Accepted 1 March 2021, Available online 6 March 2021, Version of Record 6 March 2021.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2021.102570