Development of a blockchain-based architecture for health data management and sharing Online publication date: Mon, 22-Jul-2024
by Madhumita Das; Durjoy Majumder
International Journal of Electronic Healthcare (IJEH), Vol. 14, No. 1, 2024
Abstract: Databases are important in disease management. Information technology helps in disease database management in different healthcare organisations through LAN-based servers. Hence, patients or anybody from the community do not have access to such databases. Most public databases provide cross-sectional information about a specific disease. For providing a quality healthcare to the individual patients, emphasis is put on clinical data analytics; however, it requires individual patients' clinical datasets with time-varying data points. In fact, the aggregation of such individual patients' data into a large database could be considered as the more robust evidence of big data analytics and evidence-based clinical decisions. Considering these, a community driven disease (CDD) database portal has been developed, blockchain technology is adopted to connect its four independent modules: user, corporate, visitors and admin. CDD is open to search but patients' privacy is secured. It is patient-centric and stores individual patients' data in a temporal manner.
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