Today,healthcare fraud poses a significant issue,encompassing everything from falsfied billing claims and phantom services to the excessive prescription of opioid medications and medical identity theft.These deceptive...Today,healthcare fraud poses a significant issue,encompassing everything from falsfied billing claims and phantom services to the excessive prescription of opioid medications and medical identity theft.These deceptive activities cause substantial financial losses,erode patient trust,compromise healthcare quality,and threaten patient safety.In this paper,we introduce SSI-MedRx,a healthcare system based on blockchain technology and Self-Sovereign Identity(SSI).It is designed to ensure cross-border interoperability,preserve patient privacy,and prevent challenging healthcare frauds,including medical identity theft,phantom billing,kickbacks,and opioid overprescribing.By design,our system empowers patients by granting them complete control over their personal and health data.This shift toward patient-centric data management can potentially reduce the risk of data breaches,enhance care coordination,and improve overall healthcare outcomes.展开更多
There is a growing recognition of the interdependencies among the supply systems that rely upon food,water and energy.Billions of people lack safe and sufficient access to these systems,coupled with a rapidly growing ...There is a growing recognition of the interdependencies among the supply systems that rely upon food,water and energy.Billions of people lack safe and sufficient access to these systems,coupled with a rapidly growing global demand and increasing resource constraints.Modeling frameworks are considered one of the few means available to understand the complex interrelationships among the sectors,however development of nexus related frameworks has been limited.We describe three opensource models well known in their respective domains(i.e.TerrSysMP,WOFOST and SWAT)where components of each if combined could help decision-makers address the nexus issue.We propose as a first step the development of simple workflows utilizing essential variables and addressing components of the above-mentioned models which can act as building-blocks to be used ultimately in a comprehensive nexus model framework.The outputs of the workflows and the model framework are designed to address the SDGs.展开更多
基金supported by project SERICS-"Security and Rights in CyberSpace"(PE00000014)under the MUR National Recovery and Resilience Plan funded by the European Union-NextGenerationEU.
文摘Today,healthcare fraud poses a significant issue,encompassing everything from falsfied billing claims and phantom services to the excessive prescription of opioid medications and medical identity theft.These deceptive activities cause substantial financial losses,erode patient trust,compromise healthcare quality,and threaten patient safety.In this paper,we introduce SSI-MedRx,a healthcare system based on blockchain technology and Self-Sovereign Identity(SSI).It is designed to ensure cross-border interoperability,preserve patient privacy,and prevent challenging healthcare frauds,including medical identity theft,phantom billing,kickbacks,and opioid overprescribing.By design,our system empowers patients by granting them complete control over their personal and health data.This shift toward patient-centric data management can potentially reduce the risk of data breaches,enhance care coordination,and improve overall healthcare outcomes.
基金The authors would like to acknowledge the European Commission Horizon 2020 Program that funded both the ERAPLANET/GEOEssential(Grant Agreement no.689443)ConnectinGEO(Grant Agreement no.641538)projects.
文摘There is a growing recognition of the interdependencies among the supply systems that rely upon food,water and energy.Billions of people lack safe and sufficient access to these systems,coupled with a rapidly growing global demand and increasing resource constraints.Modeling frameworks are considered one of the few means available to understand the complex interrelationships among the sectors,however development of nexus related frameworks has been limited.We describe three opensource models well known in their respective domains(i.e.TerrSysMP,WOFOST and SWAT)where components of each if combined could help decision-makers address the nexus issue.We propose as a first step the development of simple workflows utilizing essential variables and addressing components of the above-mentioned models which can act as building-blocks to be used ultimately in a comprehensive nexus model framework.The outputs of the workflows and the model framework are designed to address the SDGs.
