Healthchain: A Privacy Protection System for Medical Data Based on Blockchain

Baocheng Wang and Zetao Li
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Baocheng Wang: School of Information Science and Technology, North China University of Technology, Beijing 100144, China
Zetao Li: School of Information Science and Technology, North China University of Technology, Beijing 100144, China

Future Internet, 2021, vol. 13, issue 10, 1-16

Abstract: Recently, with the great development of e-health, more and more countries have made certain achievements in the field of electronic medical treatment. The digitization of medical equipment and the structuralization of electronic medical records are the general trends. While bringing convenience to people, the explosive growth of medical data will further promote the value of mining medical data. Obviously, finding out how to safely store such a large amount of data is a problem that urgently needs to be solved. Additionally, the particularity of medical data makes it necessarily subject to great privacy protection needs. This reinforces the importance of designing a safe solution to ensure data privacy. Many existing schemes are based on single-server architecture, which have some natural defects (such as single-point faults). Although blockchain can help solve such problems, there are still some deficiencies in privacy protection. To solve these problems, this paper designs a medical data privacy protection system, which integrates blockchain, group signature, and asymmetric encryption to realize reliable medical data sharing between medical institutions and protect the data privacy of patients. This paper proves theoretically that it meets our security and privacy requirements, and proves its practicability through system implementation.

Keywords: blockchain; e-health; encryption; group signature; privacy protection (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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