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<p class="MsoNormal">I will be very happy to hear from you about our recent publication:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">A Scoping Review of Integrated Blockchain-Cloud (BcC) Architecture for Healthcare: Applications, Challenges and Solutions<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mdpi.com%2F1424-8220%2F21%2F11%2F3753&data=04%7C01%7CLeila%40uaeu.ac.ae%7C5edcfa0dfadb4091423008d96324478e%7C97a92b044c8743419b08d8051ef8dce2%7C0%7C0%7C637649829726690024%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=s92%2BCmVVjlHd2Za999rUXhbnvEufBNMqfpdQWOeN%2F5Q%3D&reserved=0">https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/21/11/3753</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:AdvGulliv-R">Please do not hesitate to contact me with your comments.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Abstract<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Blockchain is a disruptive technology for shaping the next era of a healthcare system striving for efficient and effective patient care.
This is thanks to its peer-to-peer, secure, and transparent characteristics. On the other hand, cloud computing made its way into the healthcare system thanks to its elasticity and cost-efficiency nature. However, cloud-based systems fail to provide a secured
and private patient-centric cohesive view to multiple healthcare stakeholders. In this situation, blockchain provides solutions to address security and privacy concerns of the cloud because of its decentralization feature combined with data security and privacy,
while cloud provides solutions to the blockchain scalability and efficiency challenges. Therefore a novel paradigm of blockchain-cloud integration (BcC) emerges for the domain of healthcare. In this paper, we provide an in-depth analysis of the BcC integration
for the healthcare system to give the readers the motivations behind the emergence of this new paradigm, introduce a classification of existing architectures and their applications for better healthcare. We then review the development platforms and services
and highlight the research challenges for the integrated BcC architecture, possible solutions, and future research directions. The results of this paper will be useful for the healthcare industry to design and develop a data management system for better patient
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<p class="MsoNormal">Kind regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Leila<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="FR" style="color:#1F497D">Leila Ismail, Ph.D.</span><span lang="FR" 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 Director to Intelligent Distributed Computing & Systems (INDUCE) Research Laboratory<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><i><span style="color:#1F497D">(Industry 4.0 projects and beyond)<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><i><span style="color:#1F497D">[Beyond the sky’s the limit]</span></i></b><i><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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