Blockchain-Based Management for Organ Donation and Transplantation

Today’s organ donation and transplantation systems pose different requirements and challenges in terms of registration, donor-recipient matching, organ removal, organ delivery, and transplantation with legal, clinical, ethical, and technical constraints. Therefore, an end-to-end organ don...

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Main Authors: Diana Hawashin, Raja Jayaraman, Khaled Salah, Ibrar Yaqoob, Mecit Can Emre Simsekler, Samer Ellahham
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Language:English
Published: IEEE 2022-01-01
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Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9787401/
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author Diana Hawashin
Raja Jayaraman
Khaled Salah
Ibrar Yaqoob
Mecit Can Emre Simsekler
Samer Ellahham
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Khaled Salah
Ibrar Yaqoob
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Samer Ellahham
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description Today’s organ donation and transplantation systems pose different requirements and challenges in terms of registration, donor-recipient matching, organ removal, organ delivery, and transplantation with legal, clinical, ethical, and technical constraints. Therefore, an end-to-end organ donation and transplantation system is required to guarantee a fair and efficient process to enhance patient experience and trust. In this paper, we propose a private Ethereum blockchain-based solution to enable organ donation and transplantation management in a manner that is fully decentralized, secure, traceable, auditable, private, and trustworthy. We develop smart contracts and present six algorithms along with their implementation, testing, and validation details. We evaluate the performance of the proposed solution by performing privacy, security, and confidentiality analyses as well as comparing our solution with the existing solutions. We make the smart contract code publicly available on Github.
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spelling doaj.art-7870642897ab4ae6b54b2d0d0c98a6942022-12-22T02:34:13ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362022-01-0110590135902510.1109/ACCESS.2022.31800089787401Blockchain-Based Management for Organ Donation and TransplantationDiana Hawashin0https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0930-2622Raja Jayaraman1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2749-2688Khaled Salah2https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2310-2558Ibrar Yaqoob3https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8438-3429Mecit Can Emre Simsekler4Samer Ellahham5https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1779-2414Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Khalifa University of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab EmiratesDepartment of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Khalifa University of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab EmiratesDepartment of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Khalifa University of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab EmiratesDepartment of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Khalifa University of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab EmiratesDepartment of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Khalifa University of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab EmiratesHeart and Vascular Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Abu Dhabi, United Arab EmiratesToday’s organ donation and transplantation systems pose different requirements and challenges in terms of registration, donor-recipient matching, organ removal, organ delivery, and transplantation with legal, clinical, ethical, and technical constraints. Therefore, an end-to-end organ donation and transplantation system is required to guarantee a fair and efficient process to enhance patient experience and trust. In this paper, we propose a private Ethereum blockchain-based solution to enable organ donation and transplantation management in a manner that is fully decentralized, secure, traceable, auditable, private, and trustworthy. We develop smart contracts and present six algorithms along with their implementation, testing, and validation details. We evaluate the performance of the proposed solution by performing privacy, security, and confidentiality analyses as well as comparing our solution with the existing solutions. We make the smart contract code publicly available on Github.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9787401/Blockchainethereumorgan donationorgan transplantationsmart contractstraceability
spellingShingle Diana Hawashin
Raja Jayaraman
Khaled Salah
Ibrar Yaqoob
Mecit Can Emre Simsekler
Samer Ellahham
Blockchain-Based Management for Organ Donation and Transplantation
IEEE Access
Blockchain
ethereum
organ donation
organ transplantation
smart contracts
traceability
title Blockchain-Based Management for Organ Donation and Transplantation
title_full Blockchain-Based Management for Organ Donation and Transplantation
title_fullStr Blockchain-Based Management for Organ Donation and Transplantation
title_full_unstemmed Blockchain-Based Management for Organ Donation and Transplantation
title_short Blockchain-Based Management for Organ Donation and Transplantation
title_sort blockchain based management for organ donation and transplantation
topic Blockchain
ethereum
organ donation
organ transplantation
smart contracts
traceability
url https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9787401/
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