Using Blockchain for Electronic Health Records
National University of Sciences and Technology · Queen's University Belfast
Abstract
Blockchain have been an interesting research area for a long time and the benefits it provides have been used by a number of various industries. Similarly, the healthcare sector stands to benefit immensely from the blockchain technology due to security, privacy, confidentiality and decentralization. Nevertheless, the Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems face problems regarding data security, integrity and management. In this paper, we discuss how the blockchain technology can be used to transform the EHR systems and could be a solution of these issues. We present a framework that could be used for the implementation of blockchain technology in healthcare sector for EHR. The aim of our proposed framework is…
Citation impact
- FWCI
- 83.57
- Percentile
- 100%
- References
- 35
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3Topics & keywords
- Blockchain
- Scalability
- Computer science
- Confidentiality
- Computer security
- Decentralization
- Health records
- Health care