TY - GEN
T1 - BlockHR - A blockchain-based healthcare records management framework
T2 - 2020 International Symposium on Networks, Computers and Communications, ISNCC 2020
AU - Ismail, Leila
AU - Materwala, Huned
AU - Sharaf, Youssef
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 IEEE.
PY - 2020/10/20
Y1 - 2020/10/20
N2 - Over the last decade, the management of healthcare records has been revolutionized due to the need for accurate and cost-efficient patient-centric care alongside the technological advances. Currently, Electronic Health Records (EHRs) are managed using a client-server architecture by which healthcare providers retain the data stewardship. However, this approach suffers from security and privacy issues, a single point of failure, data fragmentation and vulnerability. The data replication, immutability, transparency, security and privacy features of blockchain have a promising future in the healthcare domain addressing the existing issues. In this paper, we propose BlockHR, a healthcare records management framework for healthcare providers and patients enabling better prognosis/diagnosis and follow-up. We analyze the effectiveness of BlockHR in providing security and privacy compared to the client-server approach. We also evaluate the performance of BlockHR versus the client-server approach. Our experimental results demonstrate that client-server approach takes 2.6 times less execution time for data write operation compared to BlockHR. The data retrieval for BlockHR is 20 times faster compared to the client-server approach. We analyze the impact of increasing number of medical records in our evaluation.
AB - Over the last decade, the management of healthcare records has been revolutionized due to the need for accurate and cost-efficient patient-centric care alongside the technological advances. Currently, Electronic Health Records (EHRs) are managed using a client-server architecture by which healthcare providers retain the data stewardship. However, this approach suffers from security and privacy issues, a single point of failure, data fragmentation and vulnerability. The data replication, immutability, transparency, security and privacy features of blockchain have a promising future in the healthcare domain addressing the existing issues. In this paper, we propose BlockHR, a healthcare records management framework for healthcare providers and patients enabling better prognosis/diagnosis and follow-up. We analyze the effectiveness of BlockHR in providing security and privacy compared to the client-server approach. We also evaluate the performance of BlockHR versus the client-server approach. Our experimental results demonstrate that client-server approach takes 2.6 times less execution time for data write operation compared to BlockHR. The data retrieval for BlockHR is 20 times faster compared to the client-server approach. We analyze the impact of increasing number of medical records in our evaluation.
KW - Blockchain
KW - Client-server architecture
KW - Data security
KW - Health data analytics
KW - Healthcare data management
KW - Patient privacy
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U2 - 10.1109/ISNCC49221.2020.9297216
DO - 10.1109/ISNCC49221.2020.9297216
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85099583698
T3 - 2020 International Symposium on Networks, Computers and Communications, ISNCC 2020
BT - 2020 International Symposium on Networks, Computers and Communications, ISNCC 2020
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Y2 - 20 October 2020 through 22 October 2020
ER -