UK and India consortium explores blockchain for healthcare IoT

 14-Aug-17, Internet Of Business 

The consortium, drawn from academia and industry, was set up following the WannaCry ransomware attack in May 2017, which hit organizations across the globe, including the UK’s National Health Service. There, the attack forced hospitals to cancel operations and left staff recording vital patient data using pen and paper.

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“Our consortium will be exploring the use of a privacy-preserving blockchain architecture for IoT applications in healthcare data-sharing, using attribute-based encryption (ABE) to provide greater security for the devices,” said Professor Muttukrishnan Rajarajan, member of the consortium and professor of network engineering at City University, London.

“Due to low voltage powering many devices drawn together by the IoT, the use of these devices is frequently compromised by their lack of sophisticated security measures,” Rajarajan added.

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