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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Sincere greetings,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this posting]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">I will be very happy to hear from you about our published paper:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:11.25pt"><b><span style="font-size:19.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1A1A1A">Blockchain Paradigm for Healthcare: Performance Evaluation<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><a href="https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/12/8/1200">https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/12/8/1200</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Electronic health records (EHRs) have become a popular method to store and manage patients’ data in hospitals. Sharing these records makes
the current healthcare data management system more accurate and cost-efficient. Currently, EHRs are stored using the client/server architecture by which each hospital retains the stewardship of the patients’ data. The records of a patient are scattered among
different hospitals using heterogeneous database servers. These limitations constitute a burden towards personalized healthcare when it comes to offering a cohesive view and a shared, secure and private access to patients’ health history for multiple allied
professionals and the patients. The data availability, privacy, and security characteristics of the blockchain have a propitious future in healthcare presenting solutions to the complexity, confidentiality, integrity, interoperability, and privacy issues of
the current client/server architecture-based EHR management system. This paper analyzes and compares the performance of the blockchain and the client/server paradigms. The results reveal that notable performance can be achieved using blockchain in a patient-centric
approach. In addition, the immutable and valid patients’ data in the blockchain can aid allied health professionals in better prognosis and diagnosis support through machine learning and artificial intelligence.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Please do not hesitate to contact me with your comments.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Best regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Leila<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:#1F497D">Leila Ismail, Ph.D.</span><span style="color:#201F1E"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:#1F497D">Associate Professor</span><span style="color:#201F1E">,
</span><span style="color:#1F497D">Dept. of Computer Science & Software Engineering</span><span style="color:#201F1E"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><i><span style="color:#1F497D">Founder and Head to Intelligent Distributed Computing & Systems Research Lab - INDUCE</span></i></b><i><span style="color:#1F497D">: Intelligent Clouds and Distributed Computing
Systems</span><span style="color:#201F1E"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:#1F497D">College of IT, UAE University</span><span style="color:#201F1E"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:#1F497D">Telephone: +971-3-7135530</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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