The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has deeply influenced the lifestyle of the general public and the healthcare system of the society. As a promising approach to address the emerging challenges caused by the epidemic of infectious diseases like COVID-19, Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) deployed in hospitals, clinics, and healthcare centers can save the diagnosis time and improve the efficiency of medical resources though privacy and security concerns of IoMT stall the wide adoption. In order to tackle the privacy, security, and interoperability issues of IoMT, we propose a framework of blockchain-enabled IoMT by introducing blockchain to incumbent IoMT systems. In this paper, we review the benefits of this architecture and illustrate the opportunities brought by blockchain-enabled IoMT. We also provide use cases of blockchain-enabled IoMT on fighting against the COVID-19 pandemic, including the prevention of infectious diseases, location sharing and contact tracing, and the supply chain of injectable medicines. We also outline future work in this area.

COVID-19大流行的爆发已深刻影响了公众的生活方式和社会的医疗保健系统。作为应对 COVID-19 等传染病流行带来的新挑战的一种有前途的方法，部署在医院、诊所和医疗中心的医疗物联网 (IoMT) 可以节省诊断时间并提高医疗资源的效率，尽管IoMT 的隐私和安全问题阻碍了其广泛采用。为了解决 IoMT 的隐私、安全和互操作性问题，我们通过将区块链引入现有 IoMT 系统，提出了一个支持区块链的 IoMT 框架。在本文中，我们回顾了这种架构的好处，并说明了支持区块链的 IoMT 带来的机遇。我们还提供了支持区块链的 IoMT 在抗击 COVID-19 大流行方面的用例，包括预防传染病、位置共享和接触者追踪，以及注射药物的供应链。我们还概述了该领域的未来工作。