The case of HyperLedger Fabric as a blockchain solution for healthcare applications
作者机构:Networks and System Research ThemeLoughborough UniversityLoughboroughLE113TTUK Systems Security GroupCoventry UniversityCoventryCV15FBUK Institute of Information Security and Cyber-Physical SystemsInnopolis UniversityInnopolis420500Russia Center for Cyber Physical SystemsKhalifa UniversityAbu Dhabi127788United Arab Emirates Laboratoire d’Informatique et de MathematiquesUniversite de LaghouatLaghouat03000Algeria
出 版 物:《Blockchain(Research and Applications)》 (区块链研究(英文))
年 卷 期:2021年第2卷第1期
页 面:41-55页
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学科分类:08[工学] 0812[工学-计算机科学与技术(可授工学、理学学位)]
主 题:blockchain Electronic healthcare records Feasibility study Healthcare Privacy Security Use-case
摘 要:The healthcare industry deals with highly sensitive data which must be managed in a secure *** Health Records(EHRs)hold various kinds of personal and sensitive data which contain names,addresses,social security numbers,insurance numbers,and medical *** personal data is valuable to the patients,healthcare service providers,medical insurance companies,and research ***,the public release of this highly sensitive personal data poses serious privacy and security threats to patients and healthcare service ***,we foresee the requirement of new technologies to address the privacy and security challenges for personal data in healthcare *** is one of the promising solutions,aimed to provide transparency,security,and privacy using consensus-driven decentralised data management on top of peer-to-peer distributed computing ***,to solve the mentioned problems in healthcare applications,in this paper,we investigate the use of private blockchain technologies to assess their feasibility for healthcare *** create testing scenarios using HyperLedger Fabric to explore different criteria and use-cases for healthcare ***,we thoroughly evaluate the representative test case scenarios to assess the blockchain-enabled security criteria in terms of data confidentiality,privacy and access *** experimental evaluation reveals the promising benefits of private blockchain technologies in terms of security,regulation compliance,compatibility,flexibility,and scalability.