GlobeChain: An Interoperable Blockchain for Global Sharing of Healthcare Data - A COVID-19 Perspective

Contagious diseases are prevalent even in the current era of advanced technology A uniformed initiative is required to build a reliable interactive information exchange service targeting vaccination data management and other medical services The conventional data exchange mechanism is centralized, creating many vulnerable issues such as a single point failure, data leakage, access control, etc This article introduces a Blockchain-based medical data-sharing framework (called GlobeChain) to overcome the technical challenges to handle the outbreak records The challenges that might arise due to the proposed Blockchain-based framework are also presented as a future direction that grabs the proposal's effectiveness IEEE