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Blockchain Paradigm for Healthcare: Performance Evaluation
Content Provider | MDPI |
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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 |