Permissioned Healthcare Blockchain System for Securing the EHRs with Privacy Preservation

Abstract

Healthcare data is very sensitive as many healthcare organizations will be very reluctant to share health data. However, sharing the healthcare data is having many more uses for both the patients as well as the research institutions too. Moreover, the existing Electronic Healthcare Record (EHR) management system will be stored in the central database in the form of plaintext. Whenever the data needs to be accessed from the database, the users will be requesting the required EHRs. However, this mechanism possesses the several challenges such as single point of failure, takes more time for user identification, interoperability issues, data recoverability issues, lack of privacy and security. This paper mainly focuses on providing security for the healthcare data, which can be shared among the various health institutions. Authentication and authorization are provided by establishing multiple certification authorities on the permissioned healthcare blockchain network. In this proposed model data integrity is also achieved by the concept of hashing of the electronic health records rather than storing it directly onto the permissioned healthcare block chain network.

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