TY - GEN
T1 - Proof of Authenticity-Based Electronic Medical Records Storage on Blockchain
AU - Qazi, Mustafa
AU - Kulkarni, Devyani
AU - Nagori, Meghana
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020, Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Electronic health records driving over the hype of digitalization are currently booming in many hospitals. Despite advancements, plethora of challenges such as data interconnectivity, interoperability, and data sharing arises due to hospitals with their own hospital management information system form clusters of data. These can be solved by effectively employing blockchain platform. The authors in this work are proposing a novel consensus algorithm titled Proof of Authenticity over the distributed platform for all medical stakeholders. Unlike the previous approaches, wherein researchers were the miners, this work illustrates a methodology to implement blockchain for health care, where the hospitals and clinics are assumed the roles of both miners and validators. The peer-to-peer network is leveraged with a designed smart contract that follows the proof of authenticity mechanism. The medical stakeholders will access the medical data under security protocols and patient’s consent in a tamper-proof network. The proposed work aims for more patient centric and transparent health care.
AB - Electronic health records driving over the hype of digitalization are currently booming in many hospitals. Despite advancements, plethora of challenges such as data interconnectivity, interoperability, and data sharing arises due to hospitals with their own hospital management information system form clusters of data. These can be solved by effectively employing blockchain platform. The authors in this work are proposing a novel consensus algorithm titled Proof of Authenticity over the distributed platform for all medical stakeholders. Unlike the previous approaches, wherein researchers were the miners, this work illustrates a methodology to implement blockchain for health care, where the hospitals and clinics are assumed the roles of both miners and validators. The peer-to-peer network is leveraged with a designed smart contract that follows the proof of authenticity mechanism. The medical stakeholders will access the medical data under security protocols and patient’s consent in a tamper-proof network. The proposed work aims for more patient centric and transparent health care.
KW - Blockchain
KW - Electronic health records
KW - Proof of authenticity
KW - Smart contracts
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85076984418&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-981-15-0077-0_31
DO - 10.1007/978-981-15-0077-0_31
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85076984418
SN - 9789811500763
T3 - Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies
SP - 297
EP - 306
BT - Smart Trends in Computing and Communications - Proceedings of SmartCom 2019
A2 - Zhang, Yu-Dong
A2 - Mandal, Jyotsna Kumar
A2 - So-In, Chakchai
A2 - Thakur, Nileshsingh V.
PB - Springer
T2 - 3rd International Conference on Smart Trends for Information Technology and Computer Communications, SmartCom 2019
Y2 - 24 January 2019 through 25 January 2019
ER -