Privacy-preserving patient-centric electronic health records exchange using blockchain

Mohammad Ahmad; Chamitha De Alwis; Mitul Shukla; Paul Sant

doi:10.1016/b978-0-443-21598-8.00020-8

Privacy-preserving patient-centric electronic health records exchange using blockchain

Mohammad Ahmad
, Chamitha De Alwis
, Mitul Shukla
, Paul Sant

Institute for Research in Applicable Computing (IRAC)

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Abstract

The global electronic health records (EHRs) market is expected to reach USD 38.5 billion by 2030. This growth is expected owing to reasons, such as the digitalization of healthcare systems, and wearable healthcare devices. However, this raises the challenge to preserve the privacy of EHRs when massive amounts of data are created, retrieved, and circulated daily. Furthermore, it is vital that the patient's EHRs that are controlled by the medical industry are transited to a patient-centric model, where patients are fully authorized to control their data. It is widely acknowledged that distributed ledger technologies (DLTs), particularly blockchain enable the storage and exchange of data in a decentralized, trusted, pseudonymous, and immutable fashion. This chapter explores adapting blockchain technologies toward patient-centric and privacy-preserving EHR exchange. Furthermore, the concept of patient-centric EHR is introduced while exploring existing methods on privacy-preserving and patient-centric EHR exchange using blockchain, and possible research directions.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Blockchain and 5G for the Digital Transformation of the Healthcare Industry
Subtitle of host publication	a Movement Toward more Resilient and Inclusive Societies
Publisher	Elsevier B.V.
Pages	341-361
Number of pages	21
ISBN (Electronic)	9780443215988
ISBN (Print)	9780443215995
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-443-21598-8.00020-8
Publication status	Published - 1 Dec 2023

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Keywords

Privacy-preserving electronic health records
Smart contract
Legal frameworks of electronic health records exchange
Blockchain in healthcare
Patient-centric electronic health records
blockchain
Blockchain

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General Computer Science

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Ahmad, M., De Alwis, C., Shukla, M., & Sant, P. (2023). Privacy-preserving patient-centric electronic health records exchange using blockchain. In Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Blockchain and 5G for the Digital Transformation of the Healthcare Industry: a Movement Toward more Resilient and Inclusive Societies (pp. 341-361). Elsevier B.V.. https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-443-21598-8.00020-8

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Privacy-preserving patient-centric electronic health records exchange using blockchain. / Ahmad, Mohammad; De Alwis, Chamitha ; Shukla, Mitul et al.
Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Blockchain and 5G for the Digital Transformation of the Healthcare Industry: a Movement Toward more Resilient and Inclusive Societies. Elsevier B.V., 2023. p. 341-361.

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