Advancing pharmacy and healthcare with virtual digital technologies

SJ Trenfield, A Awad, LE McCoubrey… - Advanced Drug Delivery …, 2022 - Elsevier
Digitalisation of the healthcare sector promises to revolutionise patient healthcare globally.
From the different technologies, virtual tools including artificial intelligence, blockchain …

Blockchain-based initiatives: current state and challenges

S Alam, M Shuaib, WZ Khan, S Garg, G Kaddoum… - Computer Networks, 2021 - Elsevier
Blockchain is considered a distributed ledger that can transact securely and trustfully without
involving any third party. It has caused a lot of interest in various sectors, like government …

Blockchain-based smart tracking and tracing platform for drug supply chain

X Liu, AV Barenji, Z Li, B Montreuil… - Computers & Industrial …, 2021 - Elsevier
The arising awareness of drug safety has brought tremendous demands on improving
traceability and transparency in the supply chain. Conventionally, centralized/distributed …

hOCBS: A privacy-preserving blockchain framework for healthcare data leveraging an on-chain and off-chain system design

K Miyachi, TK Mackey - Information processing & management, 2021 - Elsevier
In the context of blockchain technology,“off-chain” refers to computation or data that is
structurally external to the blockchain network. Off-Chain Blockchain Systems (OCBS) …

Ethertwin: Blockchain-based secure digital twin information management

B Putz, M Dietz, P Empl, G Pernul - Information Processing & Management, 2021 - Elsevier
Digital Twins are complex digital representations of assets that are used by a variety of
organizations across the Industry 4.0 value chain. As the digitization of industrial processes …

A taxonomy of blockchain consensus protocols: A survey and classification framework

S Bouraga - Expert Systems with Applications, 2021 - Elsevier
Blockchain, the underlying technology of Bitcoin, refers to the public ledger used in a
distributed network. Because blockchain does not rely on a central authority, peers have to …

Educational blockchain: A secure degree attestation and verification traceability architecture for higher education commission

A Ayub Khan, AA Laghari, AA Shaikh, S Bourouis… - Applied Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Degree attestation verification and traceability are complex one-to-one processes between
the Higher Education Commission (HEC) and universities. The procedure shifted to the …

Securing interim payments in construction projects through a blockchain-based framework

M Das, H Luo, JCP Cheng - Automation in construction, 2020 - Elsevier
Interim payment provisions in construction projects are susceptible to unfair practices. In
construction project participants with varying financial capacities belonging to different …

A blockchain-based trust model for the internet of things supply chain management

MS Al-Rakhami, M Al-Mashari - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
Accurate data and strategic business processes are crucial to all parties in a supply chain
system. However, the absence of mutual trust can create a barrier to implementation …

Automated payment and contract management in the construction industry by integrating building information modeling and blockchain-based smart contracts

K Sigalov, X Ye, M König, P Hagedorn, F Blum… - Applied sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Construction projects usually involve signing various contracts with specific billing
procedures. In practice, dealing with complex contract structures causes significant …