Blockchain-Enabled Electronic Health Records for Healthcare 4.0

Abstract

Healthcare delivery is on the verge of a fundamental shift into the new era of smart and connected health care, termed Health Care 4.0. Sharing healthcare data is an important step in improving the healthcare system's intelligence and service quality. Healthcare data, which is a personal asset of the patient, should be owned and managed by the patient rather than being dispersed among several healthcare systems, preventing data exchange and jeopardizing patient privacy. EHRs (electronic health records) assist individuals by allowing them to combine and manage their medical data. On the other hand, today's EHR systems fall short of providing patients with traceable, trustworthy, and secure ownership over their medical data, creating serious security risks. In this article, the authors propose PcBEHR (patient-controlled blockchain enabled electronic health records) as a way for patients to have safe control over their data that is decentralized, immutable, transparent, traceable, and trustworthy. Decentralized interplanetary file storage (IPFS) is used in the suggested technique.

Digital Transformation of Medical Libraries

“…Despite these advancements, most medical libraries worldwide provide digital information for both health practitioners and patients through the electronic health record (EHR) systems. EHRs assist individuals by allowing them to combine and manage their medical data (Rai, 2022).…”

“…As noted by Rai (2022), traditional EHR systems fall short of providing patients with traceable, trustworthy, and secure ownership over their medical data, creating serious security risks. Blockchainenabled electronic health records offer patients a way to have safe control over their data through a decentralized, immutable, transparent, traceable, and trustworthy system (Rai, 2022).…”

BBTCD: blockchain based traceability of counterfeited drugs

“…In the healthcare industry, counterfeit drugs are a major problem which is a concern for patients who consume drugs. Blockchain technology-based solutions (Rai et al 2022 ; Rai 2022 a) for healthcare sector have been accepted as very appealing. Hospitals and pharmacies are having knowledge about the complications in analysing the materials used in drugs and this is a major cause in healthcare sector for patient illness.…”