Abstract

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.

Details

Title
A Decentralized Medical Network for Maintaining Patient Records Using Blockchain Technology
Author
Sumathi, M 1 ; Raja, S P 2 ; Vijayaraj, N 3 ; Rajkamal, M 4 

 School of Computing, SASTRA Deemed University, Thanjavur, Tamilnadu, India 
 School of Computer Science and Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore-632 014, Tamil Nadu, India 
 Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Vel Tech Rangarajan Dr.Sagunthala R&D Institute of Science and Technology, Avadi, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India 
 Application Developer, IBM, Bangalore, Karnataka, India 
Pages
129-141
Publication year
2022
Publication date
2022
Publisher
De Gruyter Poland
ISSN
13119702
e-ISSN
13144081
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
3156059619
Copyright
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