PatientDataChain: A Blockchain-Based Approach to Integrate Personal Health Records

Sensors
Alexandra CernianAlin Iftemi

Abstract

Currently there is not a single trusted infrastructure used for the exchange and storage of medical data along the healthcare value chain and, thus, there is no platform used for monitoring patients' traceability within the entire healthcare chain. This situation leads to difficult communication and increased procedural costs, and thus it limits healthcare players from developing a better understanding and know-how of patients' traceability that could further boost innovation and development of the best-fitted health services. PatientDataChain blockchain-based technology is a novel approach, based on a decentralized healthcare infrastructure that incorporates a trust layer in the healthcare value chain. Our aim was to provide an integrated vision based on interoperability principles, that relies on the usage of specific sensors from various wearable devices, allowing us to collect specific data from patients' medical records. Interconnecting different healthcare providers, the collected data is integrated into a unitary personal health records (PHR) system, where the patient is the owner of his/her data. The decentralized nature of PatientDataChain, based on blockchain technology, leveraged the proper context to create a novel ...Continue Reading

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Methods Mentioned

BETA
biosensor
RSA

Software Mentioned

SQL
NoSQL
NGinx
Hyperledger Fabric
Modex
PatientDataChain
Tendermint
MongoDB
OpenEMR
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