Blockchain for Software Maintainability in Healthcare

Gokul Yenduri; Rajesh Kaluri; Thippa Reddy Gadekallu; Mufti Mahmud; David J. Brown

doi:10.1145/3571306.3571446

Blockchain for Software Maintainability in Healthcare

Gokul Yenduri
, Rajesh Kaluri
, Thippa Reddy Gadekallu^*
, Mufti Mahmud
, David J. Brown

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

In the healthcare industry, software quality plays a crucial role as it is used in almost all systems used for medical intervention. If the quality of healthcare software is not considered, it can potentially have a negative effect and may create catastrophic situations for the patient's health and can seriously affect the organisation's reputation. Maintainability is a key component of software quality, making up 80% of the total cost of the software development life cycle cost. Software maintainability can be assessed using metrics that are stored in a centralised location. Software maintainability metrics and related data are crucial. If attackers alter this data, it affects the overall quality of healthcare software. In order to solve this issue, we adapted blockchain-based storage, which offers the advantages of decentralisation, immutability, and transparency and is a promising solution. We used Storj, a blockchain-based decentralised file system, to secure the maintainability metrics and related data. According to the results, the maintainability metrics data stored in the blockchain-based decentralised file storage is more secure, redundant, and cost-effective than centralised storage.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	ICDCN 2023 - Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	420-424
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450397964
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3571306.3571446
State	Published - 4 Jan 2023
Externally published	Yes
Event	24th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking, ICDCN 2023 - Kharagpur, India Duration: 4 Jan 2023 → 7 Jan 2023

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Name	ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

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Conference	24th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking, ICDCN 2023
Country/Territory	India
City	Kharagpur
Period	4/01/23 → 7/01/23

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Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 ACM.

Keywords

Blockchain
Software Maintainability
Software Metrics

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Software
Human-Computer Interaction
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Computer Networks and Communications

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Yenduri, G., Kaluri, R., Gadekallu, T. R., Mahmud, M., & J. Brown, D. (2023). Blockchain for Software Maintainability in Healthcare. In ICDCN 2023 - Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking (pp. 420-424). (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3571306.3571446

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Yenduri, G, Kaluri, R, Gadekallu, TR, Mahmud, M & J. Brown, D 2023, Blockchain for Software Maintainability in Healthcare. in ICDCN 2023 - Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking. ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 420-424, 24th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking, ICDCN 2023, Kharagpur, India, 4/01/23. https://doi.org/10.1145/3571306.3571446

Blockchain for Software Maintainability in Healthcare. / Yenduri, Gokul; Kaluri, Rajesh; Gadekallu, Thippa Reddy et al.
ICDCN 2023 - Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking. Association for Computing Machinery, 2023. p. 420-424 (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

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