Patient-Centric Multichain Healthcare Record

Bipin Kumar Rai, Sumrah Fatima, Kumar Satyarth

Source Title: International Journal of E-Health and Medical Communications (IJEHMC)13(4)

ISSN: 1947-315X|EISSN: 1947-3168|EISBN13: 9781668477557|DOI: 10.4018/IJEHMC.309439

MLA

Rai, Bipin Kumar, et al. "Patient-Centric Multichain Healthcare Record." IJEHMC vol.13, no.4 2022: pp.1-14. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJEHMC.309439

APA

Rai, B. K., Fatima, S., & Satyarth, K. (2022). Patient-Centric Multichain Healthcare Record. International Journal of E-Health and Medical Communications (IJEHMC), 13(4), 1-14. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJEHMC.309439

Chicago

Rai, Bipin Kumar, Sumrah Fatima, and Kumar Satyarth. "Patient-Centric Multichain Healthcare Record," International Journal of E-Health and Medical Communications (IJEHMC) 13, no.4: 1-14. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJEHMC.309439

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Abstract

In this paper, the authors have amplified the concept that EHRs need to be patient-centric and patient-driven, that is the patient should be the real owner as well as the manager of his medical records. The authors propose patient-centric multichain healthcare record (PCMHR) that implements health records using smart contracts on ethereum blockchain and also utilizes the multichain framework - Polygon. PCMHR can concurrently implement blockchain functionality while addressing the concerns of interoperability among authorized hospitals and patient health information confidentiality that damages our healthcare system. The authors propose a solution to fully decentralize the current medical healthcare system by storing PCMHR on IPFS (InterPlanetary File System) to resolve the limitation of blockchain-based applications in scalability and high cost. The authors have depicted the cost and time analysis of transactions on the polygon framework to give a clear view of this multichain framework and its advantages over the ethereum blockchain.