TY - GEN
T1 - Health Information Exchange with Blockchain amid Covid-19-like Pandemics
AU - Christodoulou, Klitos
AU - Christodoulou, Panayiotis
AU - Zinonos, Zinon
AU - Carayannis, Elias G.
AU - Chatzichristofis, Savvas A.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 IEEE.
Copyright:
Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2020/5
Y1 - 2020/5
N2 - The COVID-19 pandemic is stress-testing existing health information exchange systems. There exists an increasing demand for sharing patient information and efficiently responding to patient medial data requests. Current health information technologies lack data fluidity, especially for remotely sharing medical data beyond their protected, local data storage. This paper presents a blockchain-based data-sharing framework that leverages the properties of immutability and decentralization to ensure a secure, user-centric approach for accessing and controlling access to sensitive medical data. The proposed framework builds its foundations on a peer-to-peer network fueled by the distributed InterPlanetary File System combined with on-chain tagging, and on the use of cryptographic generation techniques for enabling a secure way of sharing medical data. The flow of information is orchestrated by a smart-contract deployed on a blockchain-based protocol to ensure traceability and data integrity. The effectiveness of the framework is demonstrated with the implementation of the framework over a pilot study.
AB - The COVID-19 pandemic is stress-testing existing health information exchange systems. There exists an increasing demand for sharing patient information and efficiently responding to patient medial data requests. Current health information technologies lack data fluidity, especially for remotely sharing medical data beyond their protected, local data storage. This paper presents a blockchain-based data-sharing framework that leverages the properties of immutability and decentralization to ensure a secure, user-centric approach for accessing and controlling access to sensitive medical data. The proposed framework builds its foundations on a peer-to-peer network fueled by the distributed InterPlanetary File System combined with on-chain tagging, and on the use of cryptographic generation techniques for enabling a secure way of sharing medical data. The flow of information is orchestrated by a smart-contract deployed on a blockchain-based protocol to ensure traceability and data integrity. The effectiveness of the framework is demonstrated with the implementation of the framework over a pilot study.
KW - Blockchain
KW - Electronic Health Records
KW - Medical Informatics
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85091741654&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/DCOSS49796.2020.00071
DO - 10.1109/DCOSS49796.2020.00071
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85091741654
T3 - Proceedings - 16th Annual International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems, DCOSS 2020
SP - 412
EP - 417
BT - Proceedings - 16th Annual International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems, DCOSS 2020
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 16th Annual International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems, DCOSS 2020
Y2 - 15 June 2020 through 17 June 2020
ER -