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Blockchain-Based Patient-to-Patient Health Data Sharing

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Frontiers in Cyber Security (FCS 2022)

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The Covid-19 pandemic catalyzed many exciting forms of health data sharing. Aside from the institution-to-institution health data sharing among cooperating institutions for research and discovery of insights in healthcare, individual-to-many and individual-to-individual health data sharing also came to the fore. However, the security risks involved here are substantial since health data disclosures can lead to privacy and security breaches or complications. In this research, we present a scheme to enable individuals to share details of medical experiences with other individuals or interested groups. Our system provides the sharing entities with anonymity and thus, facilitates rapid dissemination of empirical insights during public health emergencies like Covid-19.

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  1. University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, People’s Republic of China

    Sandro Amofa, Jianbin Gao, Charles Roland Haruna & Xia Qi

  2. The Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Moscow, Russia

    Maame Gyamfua Asante-Mensah

  3. University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana

    Maame Gyamfua Asante-Mensah & Charles Roland Haruna

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Amofa, S., Gao, J., Asante-Mensah, M.G., Haruna, C.R., Qi, X. (2022). Blockchain-Based Patient-to-Patient Health Data Sharing. In: Ahene, E., Li, F. (eds) Frontiers in Cyber Security. FCS 2022. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1726. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-8445-7_13

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