An Integrated Approach for Secure and Efficient Sharing of EHR in Federated Blockchains

Faiza Hashim; Khaled Shuaib; Mohamed Adel Serhani

doi:10.1007/978-981-99-8324-7_17

An Integrated Approach for Secure and Efficient Sharing of EHR in Federated Blockchains

Faiza Hashim, Khaled Shuaib, Mohamed Adel Serhani

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Abstract

In the healthcare domain, blockchains technology plays a vital role in securely sharing electronic health records (EHRs) among network participants. Unfortunately, the fragmentation of private blockchain deployments disallows the sharing of EHRs across network boundaries. To address this problem, we propose a blockchain federation that supports efficient inter-blockchain communication. Our federation adopts a unified integrated approach that consists of registering independent networks and deploying a unified module in each participating network. By establishing a one-to-many connection between networks, our federation enables querying transactions from the source network to trigger a smart contract in the target blockchain for accessing patient’s records. Through experiments involving multiple blockchains deployed on different platforms, we demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed healthcare blockchain federation. The experimental results validate the applicability of our solution in promoting efficient inter-blockchain communication and extending EHRs sharing beyond a single network boundary.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of International Conference on Information Technology and Applications - ICITA 2023
Editors	Abrar Ullah, Sajid Anwar, Davide Calandra, Raffaele Di Fuccio
Publisher	Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages	183-194
Number of pages	12
ISBN (Print)	9789819983230
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-8324-7_17
Publication status	Published - 2024
Event	17th International Conference on Information Technology and Applications, ICITA 2023 - Lisbon, Portugal Duration: Oct 20 2022 → Oct 22 2022

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems
Volume	839
ISSN (Print)	2367-3370
ISSN (Electronic)	2367-3389

Conference

Conference	17th International Conference on Information Technology and Applications, ICITA 2023
Country/Territory	Portugal
City	Lisbon
Period	10/20/22 → 10/22/22

Keywords

Blockchain interoperability
Electronic health records sharing
Federated blockchain
Healthcare blockchain
Inter-blockchain communication

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Control and Systems Engineering
Signal Processing
Computer Networks and Communications

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Hashim, F., Shuaib, K., & Serhani, M. A. (2024). An Integrated Approach for Secure and Efficient Sharing of EHR in Federated Blockchains. In A. Ullah, S. Anwar, D. Calandra, & R. Di Fuccio (Eds.), Proceedings of International Conference on Information Technology and Applications - ICITA 2023 (pp. 183-194). (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems; Vol. 839). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-8324-7_17

An Integrated Approach for Secure and Efficient Sharing of EHR in Federated Blockchains. / Hashim, Faiza; Shuaib, Khaled ; Serhani, Mohamed Adel.
Proceedings of International Conference on Information Technology and Applications - ICITA 2023. ed. / Abrar Ullah; Sajid Anwar; Davide Calandra; Raffaele Di Fuccio. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2024. p. 183-194 (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems; Vol. 839).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Hashim, F, Shuaib, K & Serhani, MA 2024, An Integrated Approach for Secure and Efficient Sharing of EHR in Federated Blockchains. in A Ullah, S Anwar, D Calandra & R Di Fuccio (eds), Proceedings of International Conference on Information Technology and Applications - ICITA 2023. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol. 839, Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, pp. 183-194, 17th International Conference on Information Technology and Applications, ICITA 2023, Lisbon, Portugal, 10/20/22. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-8324-7_17

Hashim F, Shuaib K , Serhani MA. An Integrated Approach for Secure and Efficient Sharing of EHR in Federated Blockchains. In Ullah A, Anwar S, Calandra D, Di Fuccio R, editors, Proceedings of International Conference on Information Technology and Applications - ICITA 2023. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. 2024. p. 183-194. (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems). doi: 10.1007/978-981-99-8324-7_17

Hashim, Faiza ; Shuaib, Khaled ; Serhani, Mohamed Adel. / An Integrated Approach for Secure and Efficient Sharing of EHR in Federated Blockchains. Proceedings of International Conference on Information Technology and Applications - ICITA 2023. editor / Abrar Ullah ; Sajid Anwar ; Davide Calandra ; Raffaele Di Fuccio. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2024. pp. 183-194 (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems).

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