TY - GEN
T1 - Investigating quality requirements for blockchain-based healthcare systems
AU - Kassab, Mohamad
AU - Defranco, Joanna
AU - Malas, Tarek
AU - Destefanis, Giuseppe
AU - Neto, Valdemar Vicente Graciano
PY - 2019/5
Y1 - 2019/5
N2 - Healthcare is a data-intensive domain, once a considerable amount of data is daily produced due to monitoring patients, managing identities, producing medical records and processing medical insurance claims. Hence, security, besides other quality requirements, is prominent to preserve the confidentiality and integrity of such data. Blockchain technology has received attention as a mean to support secure transactions and records, including in the healthcare domain. The main contribution of this paper is providing preliminary results of an investigation on the recent literature on how the inherent characteristics of blockchain can enhance or hinder particular quality requirements in healthcare systems. We provide a preliminary analysis of five essential quality requirements for healthcare domain, besides pointing for advances that must still be achieved.
AB - Healthcare is a data-intensive domain, once a considerable amount of data is daily produced due to monitoring patients, managing identities, producing medical records and processing medical insurance claims. Hence, security, besides other quality requirements, is prominent to preserve the confidentiality and integrity of such data. Blockchain technology has received attention as a mean to support secure transactions and records, including in the healthcare domain. The main contribution of this paper is providing preliminary results of an investigation on the recent literature on how the inherent characteristics of blockchain can enhance or hinder particular quality requirements in healthcare systems. We provide a preliminary analysis of five essential quality requirements for healthcare domain, besides pointing for advances that must still be achieved.
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U2 - 10.1109/WETSEB.2019.00014
DO - 10.1109/WETSEB.2019.00014
M3 - Conference contribution
T3 - Proceedings - 2019 IEEE/ACM 2nd International Workshop on Emerging Trends in Software Engineering for Blockchain, WETSEB 2019
SP - 52
EP - 55
BT - Proceedings - 2019 IEEE/ACM 2nd International Workshop on Emerging Trends in Software Engineering for Blockchain, WETSEB 2019
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2nd IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Emerging Trends in Software Engineering for Blockchain, WETSEB 2019
Y2 - 27 May 2019
ER -