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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span lang="EN-US">IEEE JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL AND HEALTH INFORMATICS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span lang="EN-US">J-BHI Special Issue on
</span></b><b>“<span lang="EN-US">Blockchain and Healthcare Computing</span>”<span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span lang="EN-US">With the development of society, health has received increasing attentions. The development of science and technology has also promoted the protection of health.
In recent years, the rapid development of computing and networking technologies has improved the ability to collect, measure, and analyze health-related data, and thus tremendous opportunities have opened up for healthcare computing. Meanwhile, these technologies
have also brought new challenges and issues. For example, patients</span>’<span lang="EN-US"> diagnostic records stored in hospital management systems may be tampered with, which may affect the patients</span>’<span lang="EN-US"> health management and insurance
compensation. Blockchain has received increasing attention from academia and industry in recent years. It enables transparent interactions of different parties in a more secure and trusted network. The traceability of blockchain allows data to be retained
on the blockchain from every step of the data generation process, to endorse the quality of the data and to ensure the correctness of data analysis and mining. The content recorded in the blockchain cannot be tampered with, so it can be used to record important
information in health management, provide accurate and reliable health knowledge for network users, and provide accurate information for auditing.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span lang="EN-US">This special issue aims to attract contributions from academic and industrial organizations addressing emerging issues in blockchain and healthcare computing (blockchain
combined with computing for healthcare). <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><b><span lang="EN-US">Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span lang="EN-US">- The design and implementation of testbed and infrastructure of blockchain in computing for healthcare<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span lang="EN-US">- Blockchain and medical devices<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span lang="EN-US">- Blockchain and wearables (mobile healthcare with blockchain)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span lang="EN-US">- Access control of healthcare information based on blockchain<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span lang="EN-US">- Blockchain for data collection and analysis in healthcare computing<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span lang="EN-US">- Blockchain for communication network management in healthcare computing<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span lang="EN-US">- Payment system based on blockchain in healthcare<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span lang="EN-US">- Accountability in healthcare computing based on blockchain<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span lang="EN-US">- Privacy in healthcare computing based on blockchain<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span lang="EN-US">- Theories about blockchain evolution in healthcare computing<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><b><span lang="EN-US">Guest Editors<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span lang="EN-US">Yulei Wu, University of Exeter, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span lang="EN-US">Zheng Yan, Xidian University, China; Aalto University, Finland<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span lang="EN-US">F. Richard Yu, Carleton University, Canada<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span lang="EN-US">Robert Deng, Singapore Management University, Singapore<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span lang="EN-US">Vijay Varadharajan, The University of Newcastle, Australia<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span lang="EN-US">Wei Chen, Fudan University, China<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><b><span lang="EN-US">Key Dates<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span lang="EN-US">Deadline for Submission: 1 Oct, 2019
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span lang="EN-US">First Reviews Due: 1 Dec, 2019
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span lang="EN-US">Revised Manuscript Due: 1 Feb, 2020<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Final Decision: 1 April, 2020</span></p>
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