An Electronic Health Record Management System Based on Blockchain Technology

Abstract

In the digital age, all the data has been moved to an electronic form and so are the electronic health records. The patients tend to have their records in various health organizations in different parts of the world. This becomes the issue of the accessibility of these records at very crucial times and to collect these fragmented parts of the records makes for an entirely new problem. For storing the patient data and to make it accessible as well, the Blockchain smart contracts can be utilized to provide a regulatory solution. With the implementation of smart contracts which will make this a self-sufficient system, any third party dependency would be easily removed. On the Blockchain all: invocation, record creation, and validation will take place. This article focuses on a non-interpolatable, self-driven, and permanent system using Blockchain, which by definition of the Blockchain make it decentralized and patient-centric, where smart contracts can be added in the future to increase data interchange potential.