NDLI: Blockchain Paradigm for Healthcare: Performance Evaluation

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Blockchain Paradigm for Healthcare: Performance Evaluation

Content Provider	MDPI
Author	Ismail, Leila Materwala, Huned
Copyright Year	2020
Description	Electronic health records (EHRs) have become a popular method to store and manage patients’ data in hospitals. Sharing these records makes the current healthcare data management system more accurate and cost-efficient. Currently, EHRs are stored using the client/server architecture by which each hospital retains the stewardship of the patients’ data. The records of a patient are scattered among different hospitals using heterogeneous database servers. These limitations constitute a burden towards a personalized healthcare, when it comes to offering a cohesive view and a shared, secure and private access to patients’ health history for multiple allied professionals and the patients. The data availability, privacy and security characteristics of the blockchain have a propitious future in the healthcare presenting solutions to the complexity, confidentiality, integrity, interoperability and privacy issues of the current client/server architecture-based EHR management system. This paper analyzes and compares the performance of the blockchain and the client/server paradigms. The results reveal that notable performance can be achieved using blockchain in a patient-centric approach. In addition, the immutable and valid patients’ data in the blockchain can aid allied health professionals in better prognosis and diagnosis support through machine learning and artificial intelligence.
Starting Page	1200
e-ISSN	20738994
DOI	10.3390/sym12081200
Journal	Symmetry
Issue Number	8
Volume Number	12
Language	English
Publisher	MDPI
Publisher Date	2020-07-22
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Symmetry Information and Library Science Medical Informatics Artificial Intelligence Blockchain Client/server Electronic Health Records Health Information Management Privacy Security
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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