Blockchain-based electronic health record system

Health records nowadays considered as an important legal document that hold a lot of patients' sensitive information like diseases, medications, personal details and more. The patient's sensitive information is subject to data breaches by hackers on regular basis, also, these patient�...

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Main Author: Saleh Habtor, Saleh Abdulaziz
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2019
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Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/83850/
http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/83850/1/FSKTM%202019%2016%20-%20IR.pdf
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description Health records nowadays considered as an important legal document that hold a lot of patients' sensitive information like diseases, medications, personal details and more. The patient's sensitive information is subject to data breaches by hackers on regular basis, also, these patient's records need to be exchanged between different medical institutions that patients visit each time. As a result, the protection of this records in rest and in motion is a must; to preserve patient's privacy and to achieve health record security goals of confidentiality, integrity and availability. The existing health record systems does not have the balance between data privacy, ease of use and secure way to access data, so con icts between data privacy and data accessibility are common to occur. Blockchain works as shared ledger that store each transaction happened in the network, this ledger is immutable, shared and transparent. The blockchain technology provide suitable solution by enables data storage on decentralized platform. This technology can be used in the healthcare domain to provide appropriate access control mechanism and maintain the privacy of health records. In this project, we are proposing a decentralized blockchain-based electronic health record system which also called Decentralized application or DApp in short, that provide an efficient way to access records by health practitioners and maintain confidentiality of patient sensitive information. The system uses Ethereum blockchain and its smart contracts to achieve most secure access control for data security.
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spelling upm-838502020-10-23T09:12:48Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/83850/ Blockchain-based electronic health record system Saleh Habtor, Saleh Abdulaziz Health records nowadays considered as an important legal document that hold a lot of patients' sensitive information like diseases, medications, personal details and more. The patient's sensitive information is subject to data breaches by hackers on regular basis, also, these patient's records need to be exchanged between different medical institutions that patients visit each time. As a result, the protection of this records in rest and in motion is a must; to preserve patient's privacy and to achieve health record security goals of confidentiality, integrity and availability. The existing health record systems does not have the balance between data privacy, ease of use and secure way to access data, so con icts between data privacy and data accessibility are common to occur. Blockchain works as shared ledger that store each transaction happened in the network, this ledger is immutable, shared and transparent. The blockchain technology provide suitable solution by enables data storage on decentralized platform. This technology can be used in the healthcare domain to provide appropriate access control mechanism and maintain the privacy of health records. In this project, we are proposing a decentralized blockchain-based electronic health record system which also called Decentralized application or DApp in short, that provide an efficient way to access records by health practitioners and maintain confidentiality of patient sensitive information. The system uses Ethereum blockchain and its smart contracts to achieve most secure access control for data security. 2019-06 Thesis NonPeerReviewed text en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/83850/1/FSKTM%202019%2016%20-%20IR.pdf Saleh Habtor, Saleh Abdulaziz (2019) Blockchain-based electronic health record system. Masters thesis, Universiti Putra Malaysia. Blockchains (Databases) Medical records - Data processing
spellingShingle Blockchains (Databases)
Medical records - Data processing
Saleh Habtor, Saleh Abdulaziz
Blockchain-based electronic health record system
title Blockchain-based electronic health record system
title_full Blockchain-based electronic health record system
title_fullStr Blockchain-based electronic health record system
title_full_unstemmed Blockchain-based electronic health record system
title_short Blockchain-based electronic health record system
title_sort blockchain-based electronic health record system
topic Blockchains (Databases)
Medical records - Data processing
url http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/83850/
http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/83850/1/FSKTM%202019%2016%20-%20IR.pdf