Abstract
Technological advancement in the medical field introduced many advanced appliances that changed the way we live. People became more conscious about their health using fitness tracking applications and wearable devices. Despite the progress made in this direction and solutions being cost effective, many people are not aware about preventive measures for widespread diseases that are currently spreading in their neighborhood. As per the survey conducted in India during 2015 [1], due to lack of awareness, 33761 confirmed Swine flu cases and 2035 deaths were reported. Out of 33761 cases, 6495 swine flu cases and 428 deaths were observed within the state of Gujarat. The goal of this project is to create awareness among people regarding preventive measures to fight against contagious diseases that are widespread in their neighborhood. Public health awareness system using blockchain is an alert system which is built with the combination of Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence. Patient records are vulnerable and could be manipulated by unauthorized user. Hence an advanced technology like blockchain facilitates high security, decentralization, and tamper-proof, is used for transmission of patient records [2]. Another major aspect of the system is to predict the number of cases for the disease in a particular area. This is done in two steps; first a cluster of neighboring zip codes is created, and then prediction is made using regression model considering past 7 days of data. The code then generates list of alerts if the probability of disease exceeds a predetermined threshold.