BLOSOM: BLOckchain technology for Security Of Medical records
Today, information security world is witnessing frequent attacks on electronic records by the naive and professional hackers and crackers. Security of Patient’s Electronic Medical Record (EMR) in Hospital Management System is of paramount importance and so warrants immediate attention. In this resea...
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| author | Rahul Johari Vivek Kumar Kalpana Gupta Deo Prakash Vidyarthi |
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| description | Today, information security world is witnessing frequent attacks on electronic records by the naive and professional hackers and crackers. Security of Patient’s Electronic Medical Record (EMR) in Hospital Management System is of paramount importance and so warrants immediate attention. In this research work, BlockChain containers running on multiple ports are proposed to be used for holding patient’s medical records. To perform this task effectively, a BlockChain framework named as “Medichain” was developed from scratch that contains all basic functionalities of a BlockChain to secure patient’s data. Each block of the BlockChain keeps a list of records of patient details. Users would be provided with an option of uploading the file containing the list of records as a JSON file, in a decisive, distributed and decentralized network. The proposed BlockChain Algorithm, consisting of cryptographic hash of the records, proof of work and a Merkle tree formulation, were simulated in Python. Results have been positive and encouraging. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-916d2721cef4492d930fe48a2b5e144d2022-12-22T00:03:19ZengElsevierICT Express2405-95952022-03-01815660BLOSOM: BLOckchain technology for Security Of Medical recordsRahul Johari0Vivek Kumar1Kalpana Gupta2Deo Prakash Vidyarthi3SWINGER (Security, Wireless IoT Network Group of Engineering and Research) Lab, USIC&T, GGSIP University, Sector-16C, Dwarka, Delhi, India; Corresponding author.SWINGER (Security, Wireless IoT Network Group of Engineering and Research) Lab, USIC&T, GGSIP University, Sector-16C, Dwarka, Delhi, IndiaCentre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) NOIDA, IndiaParallel and Distributed System Lab, School of Computer and Systems Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, IndiaToday, information security world is witnessing frequent attacks on electronic records by the naive and professional hackers and crackers. Security of Patient’s Electronic Medical Record (EMR) in Hospital Management System is of paramount importance and so warrants immediate attention. In this research work, BlockChain containers running on multiple ports are proposed to be used for holding patient’s medical records. To perform this task effectively, a BlockChain framework named as “Medichain” was developed from scratch that contains all basic functionalities of a BlockChain to secure patient’s data. Each block of the BlockChain keeps a list of records of patient details. Users would be provided with an option of uploading the file containing the list of records as a JSON file, in a decisive, distributed and decentralized network. The proposed BlockChain Algorithm, consisting of cryptographic hash of the records, proof of work and a Merkle tree formulation, were simulated in Python. Results have been positive and encouraging.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405959521000783Block chainMerkle treeMedichainEMRHash |
| spellingShingle | Rahul Johari Vivek Kumar Kalpana Gupta Deo Prakash Vidyarthi BLOSOM: BLOckchain technology for Security Of Medical records ICT Express Block chain Merkle tree Medichain EMR Hash |
| title | BLOSOM: BLOckchain technology for Security Of Medical records |
| title_full | BLOSOM: BLOckchain technology for Security Of Medical records |
| title_fullStr | BLOSOM: BLOckchain technology for Security Of Medical records |
| title_full_unstemmed | BLOSOM: BLOckchain technology for Security Of Medical records |
| title_short | BLOSOM: BLOckchain technology for Security Of Medical records |
| title_sort | blosom blockchain technology for security of medical records |
| topic | Block chain Merkle tree Medichain EMR Hash |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405959521000783 |
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