A Secure and Effective Solution for Electronic Health Records with Hyperledger Fabric Blockchain

Abstract

Blockchain is a decentralized database where you are allowed to add blocks and ready chains anytime. Blockchain technology has a great potential varying from the financial sector, including the IoT, e-commerce, accounting and auditing, electronic voting, asset and identity management, supply chain management, taxation, telecommunications, health care, and public services. Security and efficiency of these types of applications remain an issue. Blockchain can address all of these concerns in an efficient way, where it can provide benefits including easy deployment and maintenance, seamless authentication, privacy, and security. Blockchain serves as the basis for many applications in smart cities, whereas in this paper, we will put the focus, particularly on the sub-area of smart cities, namely the healthcare sector. We will make use of the experiences we had in smart cities, in order to suggest an efficient solution for electronic health records (EHRs). In this paper, we suggest a framework for EHRs that makes use of blockchain technology to store medical records more effectively, securely, and reliably while also facilitating quick access to them. In this regard, we are considering using Hyperledger, a permissioned blockchain platform.