Enhancing Privacy and Data Security across Healthcare Applications Using Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Concepts
Nowadays, blockchain is developing as a secure and trustworthy platform for secure information sharing in areas of application like banking, supply chain management, food industry, energy, the Internet, and medical services. Besides, the blockchain can be described in a decentralized manner as an im...
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| author | Haibing Liu Rubén González Crespo Oscar Sanjuán Martínez |
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| description | Nowadays, blockchain is developing as a secure and trustworthy platform for secure information sharing in areas of application like banking, supply chain management, food industry, energy, the Internet, and medical services. Besides, the blockchain can be described in a decentralized manner as an immutable ledger for recording data entries. Furthermore, this new technology has been developed to interrupt a variety of data-driven fields, including the health sector. However, blockchain refers to the distributed ledger technology, which constitutes an innovation in the information recording and sharing without a trusted third party. In this paper, blockchain and Distributed Ledger-based Improved Biomedical Security system (BDL-IBS) has been proposed to enhance the privacy and data security across healthcare applications. Further, our goal is to make it possible for patients to use the data to support their care and to provide strong consent systems for sharing data among different organizations and applications, since this includes managing and accessing a high amount of medical information, and this technology can maintain data to ensure reliability. Finally, results show that new blockchain-based digital platforms allow for fast, easy, and seamless interactions between data suppliers to enhance privacy and data security, including for patients themselves. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ad0db587c7384aabaa3fd193ca5a61722023-11-20T08:24:08ZengMDPI AGHealthcare2227-90322020-07-018324310.3390/healthcare8030243Enhancing Privacy and Data Security across Healthcare Applications Using Blockchain and Distributed Ledger ConceptsHaibing Liu0Rubén González Crespo1Oscar Sanjuán Martínez2Evergrande School of Management, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430000, ChinaComputer Science Department, School of Engineering and Technology, Universidad Internacional de la Rioja (UNIR), 26006 Logroño, SpainComputer Science Department, School of Engineering and Technology, Universidad Internacional de la Rioja (UNIR), 26006 Logroño, SpainNowadays, blockchain is developing as a secure and trustworthy platform for secure information sharing in areas of application like banking, supply chain management, food industry, energy, the Internet, and medical services. Besides, the blockchain can be described in a decentralized manner as an immutable ledger for recording data entries. Furthermore, this new technology has been developed to interrupt a variety of data-driven fields, including the health sector. However, blockchain refers to the distributed ledger technology, which constitutes an innovation in the information recording and sharing without a trusted third party. In this paper, blockchain and Distributed Ledger-based Improved Biomedical Security system (BDL-IBS) has been proposed to enhance the privacy and data security across healthcare applications. Further, our goal is to make it possible for patients to use the data to support their care and to provide strong consent systems for sharing data among different organizations and applications, since this includes managing and accessing a high amount of medical information, and this technology can maintain data to ensure reliability. Finally, results show that new blockchain-based digital platforms allow for fast, easy, and seamless interactions between data suppliers to enhance privacy and data security, including for patients themselves.https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9032/8/3/243data securityprivacyhealthcare applicationsblockchain technologydistributed ledger technology |
| spellingShingle | Haibing Liu Rubén González Crespo Oscar Sanjuán Martínez Enhancing Privacy and Data Security across Healthcare Applications Using Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Concepts Healthcare data security privacy healthcare applications blockchain technology distributed ledger technology |
| title | Enhancing Privacy and Data Security across Healthcare Applications Using Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Concepts |
| title_full | Enhancing Privacy and Data Security across Healthcare Applications Using Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Concepts |
| title_fullStr | Enhancing Privacy and Data Security across Healthcare Applications Using Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Concepts |
| title_full_unstemmed | Enhancing Privacy and Data Security across Healthcare Applications Using Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Concepts |
| title_short | Enhancing Privacy and Data Security across Healthcare Applications Using Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Concepts |
| title_sort | enhancing privacy and data security across healthcare applications using blockchain and distributed ledger concepts |
| topic | data security privacy healthcare applications blockchain technology distributed ledger technology |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9032/8/3/243 |
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