Abstract Title
Decentralized Secure Framework for Sharing and Managing Electronic Health Record Using Ethereum-based Blockchain Technology
Abstract
Achieving data confidentiality, authenticity, and integrity while maintaining secure access control is essential in the medical sector. Implementing a blockchain-based technology to secure medical data makes the data decentralized and protects the intellectual property of the data. The decentralized system of blockchain along with the presence of smart contracts to automate tasks are the two major features that can be utilized to replace our current health system and invent a secure, flexible, and more reliable system for data protection. Using this technology will require patients to be accountable for their medical records while allowing authorized medical authorities to securely share anonymized medical data between multiple clinics, individual doctors, pharmacies, and insurance providers globally. Additionally, the electronic medical records (EMR) per patient will be stored for lifetime, which is important to pharmaceutical scientists to develop precise medicines. In order to build such robust system to protect medical data, my research focuses on the security aspect of the system by analyzing the blockchain technology constraints, and carefully designing and implementing a secure and scalable system using Ethereum blockchains, smart contracts, and cryptography. Therefore, it is significant to use this emerging technology to reduce millions of medical data breaches each year.
Decentralized Secure Framework for Sharing and Managing Electronic Health Record Using Ethereum-based Blockchain Technology
Achieving data confidentiality, authenticity, and integrity while maintaining secure access control is essential in the medical sector. Implementing a blockchain-based technology to secure medical data makes the data decentralized and protects the intellectual property of the data. The decentralized system of blockchain along with the presence of smart contracts to automate tasks are the two major features that can be utilized to replace our current health system and invent a secure, flexible, and more reliable system for data protection. Using this technology will require patients to be accountable for their medical records while allowing authorized medical authorities to securely share anonymized medical data between multiple clinics, individual doctors, pharmacies, and insurance providers globally. Additionally, the electronic medical records (EMR) per patient will be stored for lifetime, which is important to pharmaceutical scientists to develop precise medicines. In order to build such robust system to protect medical data, my research focuses on the security aspect of the system by analyzing the blockchain technology constraints, and carefully designing and implementing a secure and scalable system using Ethereum blockchains, smart contracts, and cryptography. Therefore, it is significant to use this emerging technology to reduce millions of medical data breaches each year.