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Development of EHR Using Blockchain Technology

Development of EHR Using Blockchain Technology

Manabili Nath (National Institute of Technology, Silchar, India), Akangsha Goswami (National Institute of Technology, Silchar, India), Smriti Suman (National Institute of Technology, Silchar, India), Ritu Agarwalla (National Institute of Technology, Silchar, India), Boddu Venkateswarlu (National Institute of Technology, Silchar, India), Malaya Dutta Borah (National Institute of Technology, Silchar, India), and Naresh Babu Muppalaneni (National Institute of Technology, Silchar, India)
Copyright: © 2023 |Pages: 23
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-6509-7.ch004
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Abstract

Electronic health records (EHRs) are the most effective method to store and share patient's data among different hospitals which a patient visits in the over the course of time. Data of the patient's medical history needs to be shared among the various healthcare providers for a better understanding of the patient's progress and to carry on with the treatment. The traditional methodology for storing patient's data poses threat to data integrity, security, reliability, provider and patient trust, interoperability among clients and easy accessibility of personal data. With the advent of blockchain technology and its application in the healthcare sector, it ensures immutability, user data protection and information accessibility to share data in a distributed storage for the verified parties. Blockchain technology provides us with the benefit of storing this data without the possibility of modification in a decentralized manner.
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Electronic Health Record (EHR) is the digital form of health records for a patient, mostly containing patient credentials, disease diagnosis, health reports and other clinical data. An advanced version of the Electronic Health Record can also help in sharing information between organizations for various purposes such as health monitoring and contains all the records on a patient compiled by different physicians and hospitals (Kashyap et al., 2022).

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