A blockchain-based secure storage scheme for medical information

Medical data involves a large amount of personal information and is highly privacy sensitive. In the age of big data, the increasing informatization of healthcare makes it vital that medical information is stored securely and accurately. However, current medical information is subject to the risk of...

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Published in:EURASIP journal on wireless communications and networking 2022-04, Vol.2022 (1), p.1-25, Article 40
Main Authors: Sun, Zhijie, Han, Dezhi, Li, Dun, Wang, Xiangsheng, Chang, Chin-Chen, Wu, Zhongdai
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
ABAC
Access control
Big Data
Blockchain
Communications Engineering
Cryptography
Engineering
Health care
Hyperledger fabric
Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet)
IPFS
Machine Learning for Trust
Medical information
Networks
Privacy
Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications
Signal,Image and Speech Processing
Smart contracts
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Summary:Medical data involves a large amount of personal information and is highly privacy sensitive. In the age of big data, the increasing informatization of healthcare makes it vital that medical information is stored securely and accurately. However, current medical information is subject to the risk of privacy leakage and difficult to share. To address these issues, this paper proposes a healthcare information security storage solution based on hyperledger fabric and the attribute-based access control framework. The scheme first utilizes attribute-based access control, which allows dynamic and fine-grained access to medical information, and then stores the medical information in the blockchain, which can be secured and tamper-proof by formulating corresponding smart contracts. In addition, this solution also incorporates IPFS technology to relieve the storage pressure of the blockchain. Experiments show that the proposed scheme combining access control of attributes and blockchain technology in this paper can not only ensure the secure storage and integrity of medical information but also has a high throughput when accessing medical information
ISSN:1687-1499
1687-1472
1687-1499
DOI:10.1186/s13638-022-02122-6