TY - GEN
T1 - Performance evaluation of a patient-centric blockchain-based healthcare records management framework
AU - Ismail, Leila
AU - Materwala, Huned
AU - Khan, Moien A.B.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 ACM.
PY - 2020/7/8
Y1 - 2020/7/8
N2 - Healthcare records management system has been revolutionized over the last decade aiming to provide accurate, efficient and enhanced patient care. The existing management system is either based on a client/server approach where each hospital maintains its own database or on a cloud approach where the health records are stored in a cloud server and managed by a third-party cloud service provider. However, these approaches suffer from the issues of security, privacy, data vulnerability and fragmentation. Furthermore, healthcare providers and patients are unable to have a unified view of a patient's medical history from all visited medical care centers. This results in additional treatment costs, repeated medical tests and increased time to diagnosis. The data traceability, immutability, transparency, replication, security and privacy traits of the emerging blockchain technology have a promising potential in the healthcare domain addressing these issues. In this paper, we propose BlockHR, a patient-centric healthcare records management system for efficient medical care at an optimal cost. The system enables healthcare providers to enter the patients' medical record data to the blockchain network and allows patients to enter their social data such as sleeping habits, physical activities, and current location. Consequently, BlockHR provides support to doctors for better diagnosis and prognosis. We evaluate the performance of BlockHR in terms of execution time and the total amount of data transferred for ledger update with an increasing number of hospitals and blocks in the network.
AB - Healthcare records management system has been revolutionized over the last decade aiming to provide accurate, efficient and enhanced patient care. The existing management system is either based on a client/server approach where each hospital maintains its own database or on a cloud approach where the health records are stored in a cloud server and managed by a third-party cloud service provider. However, these approaches suffer from the issues of security, privacy, data vulnerability and fragmentation. Furthermore, healthcare providers and patients are unable to have a unified view of a patient's medical history from all visited medical care centers. This results in additional treatment costs, repeated medical tests and increased time to diagnosis. The data traceability, immutability, transparency, replication, security and privacy traits of the emerging blockchain technology have a promising potential in the healthcare domain addressing these issues. In this paper, we propose BlockHR, a patient-centric healthcare records management system for efficient medical care at an optimal cost. The system enables healthcare providers to enter the patients' medical record data to the blockchain network and allows patients to enter their social data such as sleeping habits, physical activities, and current location. Consequently, BlockHR provides support to doctors for better diagnosis and prognosis. We evaluate the performance of BlockHR in terms of execution time and the total amount of data transferred for ledger update with an increasing number of hospitals and blocks in the network.
KW - Blockchain
KW - Data security
KW - Diagnosis
KW - Electronic health records
KW - Health data management system
KW - Patient-centric; Privacy
KW - Prognosis
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U2 - 10.1145/3409934.3409941
DO - 10.1145/3409934.3409941
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85090903662
T3 - ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
SP - 39
EP - 50
BT - Proceedings of the 2020 2nd International Electronics Communication Conference, IECC 2020
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
T2 - 2nd International Electronics Communication Conference, IECC 2020 and the 2nd Blockchain and Internet of Things Conference, BIOTC 2020
Y2 - 8 July 2020 through 10 July 2020
ER -