Blockchain-Based Solution for COVID-19 Digital Medical Passports and Immunity Certificates

COVID-19 has emerged as a highly contagious disease which has caused a devastating impact across the world with a very large number of infections and deaths. Timely and accurate testing is paramount to an effective response to this pandemic as it helps identify infections and therefore mitigate (iso...

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Vydáno v:IEEE access Ročník 8; s. 222093 - 222108
Hlavní autoři: Hasan, Haya R., Salah, Khaled, Jayaraman, Raja, Arshad, Junaid, Yaqoob, Ibrar, Omar, Mohammed, Ellahham, Samer
Médium: Journal Article
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: United States IEEE 01.01.2020
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Témata:
Blockchain
Certificates
Computers and Information Processing
Coronaviruses
Cost analysis
COVID-19
Cryptography
digital medical passports
Diseases
Encryption
Ethereum
Immune system
Immunity
immunity certificates
Medical diagnostic imaging
Passports
Response time
security
Smart contracts
Systems design
Systems, Man, and Cybernetics
Testing
traceability
tracking
COVID-19
digital medical passports
security
blockchain
smart contracts
Ethereum
immunity certificates
traceability
tracking
ISSN:2169-3536, 2169-3536
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Shrnutí:COVID-19 has emerged as a highly contagious disease which has caused a devastating impact across the world with a very large number of infections and deaths. Timely and accurate testing is paramount to an effective response to this pandemic as it helps identify infections and therefore mitigate (isolate/cure) them. In this paper, we investigate this challenge and contribute by presenting a blockchain-based solution that incorporates self-sovereign identity, re-encryption proxies, and decentralized storage, such as the interplanetary file systems (IPFS). Our solution implements digital medical passports (DMP) and immunity certificates for COVID-19 test-takers. We present smart contracts based on the Ethereum blockchain written and tested successfully to maintain a digital medical identity for test-takers that help in a prompt trusted response directly by the relevant medical authorities. We reduce the response time of the medical facilities, alleviate the spread of false information by using immutable trusted blockchain, and curb the spread of the disease through DMP. We present a detailed description of the system design, development, and evaluation (cost and security analysis) for the proposed solution. Since our code leverages the use of the on-chain events, the cost of our design is almost negligible. We have made our smart contract codes publicly available on Github.
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ISSN:2169-3536
2169-3536
DOI:10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3043350