Research Opportunities for E-health Applications with DNA Sequence Data using Blockchain Technology

Abstract

E-health applications are health-related computing solutions that use the internet to provide services to users. One of the main challenges of E-health applications is the data privacy and security of patients. E-health application need should provide security and privacy mechanisms due to sensitive user data such as medical exams, DNA sequences, and others. Blockchain technology has become a research focus on several sectors that require their inherent characteristics, especially, about the security and privacy of data. This paper aims to present research opportunities with the use of Blockchain technology in applications that manipulate DNA sequence data. For this purpose, we propose an architecture for general E-health applications with Blockchain and implement a Proof of Concept (POC) to analyze the use of Blockchain technology in E-health applications using DNA sequence data. We also listed a set of research opportunities that permeate this topic.