Blockchain is a disruptive and transformational technology with huge potential, growth, and impact on many industries, businesses, and governments. Locally in the UAE, the Dubai government has mandated that all government-based transactions be paperless and carried out using blockchain by the year 2020. Blockchain is poised to be the preferred technology to solve many challenging problems in healthcare. Moreover, IoT has now become one of the most hyped technologies these days. In this research project, we leverage blockchain and IoT technologies to solve and manage efficiently and in a decentralized, secure, and trusted manner the following three critical problems in healthcare: (i) cold supply chain operations and management applied to sensitive healthcare items such as vaccines, organs, and blood samples; (ii) globally accessible and credible medical history and record of drug administration to ensure patient rights and safety; and (iii) governance of access, control, and sharing of medical IoT (MIoT) devices and their data.
