Securing the Future of Electronic Health Records with Blockchain Integration

The use of blockchain technology is meant to revolutionize the way in which traditional systems work. This technology has paved way for more secure solutions thereby leveraging the concepts of data privacy and authentication. Electronic health records are digitally stored health data of the patients which includes their history of diagnosis along with their reports generated by the hospitals. But these records also face the concerns of data privacy and security as they are prone to tempering, leakage and duplication. To address these concerns researchers have come up with the use of blockchain in electronic health records. Since blockchain is a decentralized and immutable ledger-based platform, it offers more secure and private solutions to the healthcare sector. This paper presents a framework based on blockchain for EHRs in order to enhance their security. It also makes use of Interplanetary file system as a distributed data storage platform which is compatible with Web 3 based environments. This addresses the issue of scalability of the system. The proposed framework proves to be better in terms of privacy, scalability, security and cost when compared with the recent literatures. This system can further be extended by integrating multi-factor authentication as a future direction for research.