Securing Smart City Health Services Using Blockchain Technology

Abstract

In smart city environments cyber security is a major issue that must be addressed across different smart service domains while delivering quality of life for citizens. Smart healthcare is an important area that ensures quality health services delivery which is reliable and effective. Smart health is an important requirement for smart city services. To explore the nuances of smart city healthcare services, the paper presents a systematic literature review using current research. The focus of this study is to highlight the important issues surrounding s-healthcare services. There are multiple issues related to data security and privacy, since smart city infrastructures are complex and make use of multiple components in exchange of information resulting in security vulnerabilities. The use of blockchain technology in tackling the security and privacy issues in smart city healthcare are explored and analysed. The paper presents the role and importance of blockchain in healthcare, issues faced by health care services and the impact of blockchain in smart healthcare services to highlight the need for secured health information exchange in smart cities.