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Blockchain Architecture for Secured Inter-healthcare Electronic Health Records Exchange

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Advances in Intelligent Networking and Collaborative Systems (INCoS 2020)

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In this on-going research, we propose a blockchain-based solution that facilitates a scalable and secured inter-healthcare EHRs exchange. These healthcare systems maintain their records on separate blockchain networks and are independent of each other. The proposed architecture can detect and prevent malicious activities on both stored and shared EHRs from either outsider or insider threats. It can also verify the integrity and consistency of EHR requests and replies from other healthcare systems and presents them in a standard format that can be easily understood by different healthcare nodes. In the preliminary result, we evaluate the security analysis against frequently encounter outsider and insider threats within a healthcare system. The result shows that the architecture detects and prevents outsider threats from uploading compromising EHRs into the blockchain and also prevents unauthorized retrieval of patient’s information.

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  1. City University of New York, City College, New York, NY, 10031, USA

    Oluwaseyi Ajayi, Meryem Abouali & Tarel Saadawi

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    Leonard Barolli

  2. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada

    Kin Fun Li

  3. School of Science and Technology, Kwansei Gakuin University, Sanda, Japan

    Hiroyoshi Miwa

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Ajayi, O., Abouali, M., Saadawi, T. (2021). Blockchain Architecture for Secured Inter-healthcare Electronic Health Records Exchange. In: Barolli, L., Li, K., Miwa, H. (eds) Advances in Intelligent Networking and Collaborative Systems. INCoS 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1263. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57796-4_16

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