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<p>Personal Medical Records (PMR) manage an individual’s medical information in digital form and allow patients to view their medical information and doctors to diagnose diseases. Today’s institution-dependent centralized storage, fails to give trustworthy, secure, reliable, and traceable patient controls. This leads to a serious disadvantage in diagnosing and preventing diseases. The proposed blockchain technique forms a secured network between doctors of the same specialization for gathering opinions on a particular diagnosis by sharing the PMR with consent to provide better care to patients. To finalize the disease prediction, members can approve the diagnosis. The smart contract access control allows doctors to view and access the PMR. The scalability issue is resolved by the Huffman code data compression technique, and security of the PMR is achieved by an advanced encryption standard. The proposed techniques’ requirements, latency time, compression ratio and security analysis have been compared with existing techniques.</p>
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Personal Medical Records (PMR) manage an individual’s medical information in digital form and allow patients to view their medical information and doctors to diagnose diseases. Today’s institution-dependent centralized storage, fails to give trustworthy, secure, reliable, and traceable patient controls. This leads to a serious disadvantage in diagnosing and preventing diseases. The proposed blockchain technique forms a secured network between doctors of the same specialization for gathering opinions on a particular diagnosis by sharing the PMR with consent to provide better care to patients. To finalize the disease prediction, members can approve the diagnosis. The smart contract access control allows doctors to view and access the PMR. The scalability issue is resolved by the Huffman code data compression technique, and security of the PMR is achieved by an advanced encryption standard. The proposed techniques’ requirements, latency time, compression ratio and security analysis have been compared with existing techniques.

A Decentralized Medical Network for Maintaining Patient Records Using Blockchain Technology

Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Cybernetics and Information Technologies

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Personal Medical Records (PMR) manage an individual’s medical information in digital form and allow patients to view their medical information and doctors to...

A Decentralized Medical Network for Maintaining Patient Records Using Blockchain Technology

Data publikacji: 10 lis 2022

Zakres stron: 129 - 141

Otrzymano: 28 sie 2022

Przyjęty: 20 paź 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/cait-2022-0043

Słowa kluczowe
Healthcare, Blockchain, Smart contract, Ethereum, Personal Medical Record, Huffman code, Advanced Encryption Standard

© 2022 M. Sumathi et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

A Decentralized Medical Network for Maintaining Patient Records Using Blockchain Technology

Data publikacji: 10 lis 2022

Zakres stron: 129 - 141

Otrzymano: 28 sie 2022

Przyjęty: 20 paź 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/cait-2022-0043

Słowa kluczoweHealthcare, Blockchain, Smart contract, Ethereum, Personal Medical Record, Huffman code, Advanced Encryption Standard

© 2022 M. Sumathi et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Słowa kluczowe
Healthcare, Blockchain, Smart contract, Ethereum, Personal Medical Record, Huffman code, Advanced Encryption Standard