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MedChain: Efficient Healthcare Data Sharing via Blockchain
Shen, Bingqing; Guo, Jingzhi; Yang, Yilong
2019-03-22
Source PublicationAPPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL
ISSN2076-3417
Volume9Issue:6
Abstract

Healthcare information exchange is an important research topic, which can benefit both healthcare providers and patients. In healthcare data sharing, many cloud-based solutions have been proposed, but the trustworthiness of a third-party cloud service is questionable. Recently, blockchain has been introduced in healthcare record sharing, which does not rely on trusting a third party. However, existing approaches only focus on the records collected from medical examination. They are not efficient in sharing data streams continuously generated from sensors and other monitoring devices. Today, IoT devices have been widely deployed and sensors and mobile applications can monitor patients' body conditions. The collected data are shared to laboratories and institutions for diagnosis and further study. Moreover, existing approaches are too rigid to efficiently support metadata change. In this paper, an efficient data-sharingscheme is proposed, called MedChain, which combines blockchain, digest chain, and structured P2P network techniques to overcome the above efficiency issues in the existing approaches for sharing both types of healthcare data. Based on MedChain, a session-based healthcare data-sharing scheme is devised, which brings flexibility in data sharing. The evaluation results show that MedChain can achieve higher efficiency and satisfy the security requirements in datasharing.

KeywordBlockchain Data Sharing Peer-to-peer Decentralization Digest Chain Healthcare Data Electronic Health Record Data Stream Healthcare Information Exchange
DOI10.3390/app9061207
Indexed BySCIE
Language英語English
WOS Research AreaChemistry ; Materials Science ; Physics
WOS SubjectChemistry, Multidisciplinary ; Materials Science, Multidisciplinary ; Physics, Applied
WOS IDWOS:000464381400017
Scopus ID2-s2.0-85063734380
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Document TypeJournal article
CollectionFaculty of Science and Technology
DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
AffiliationUniv Macau, Fac Sci & Technol, Taipa 999078, Macau, Peoples R China
First Author AffilicationUniversity of Macau
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Shen, Bingqing,Guo, Jingzhi,Yang, Yilong. MedChain: Efficient Healthcare Data Sharing via Blockchain[J]. APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL, 2019, 9(6).
APA Shen, Bingqing., Guo, Jingzhi., & Yang, Yilong (2019). MedChain: Efficient Healthcare Data Sharing via Blockchain. APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL, 9(6).
MLA Shen, Bingqing,et al."MedChain: Efficient Healthcare Data Sharing via Blockchain".APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL 9.6(2019).
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