BlocHIE: A BLOCkchain-Based Platform for Healthcare Information Exchange

By Shan Jiang, Jiannong Cao, Hanqing Wu, Yanni Yang, Mingyu Derek Ma, Jianfei He. International Conference on Smart Computing, 2018

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Nowadays, a great number of healthcare data are generated every day from both medical institutions and individuals. Healthcare information exchange (HIE) has been proved to benefit the medical industry remarkably. To store and share such large amount of healthcare data is important while challenging. In this paper, we propose BlocHIE, a Blockchain-based platform for healthcare information exchange. First, we analyze the different requirements for sharing healthcare data from different sources. Based on the analysis, we employ two loosely-coupled Blockchains to handle different kinds of healthcare data. Second, we combine off-chain storage and on-chain verification to satisfy the requirements of both privacy and authenticability. Third, we propose two fairness-based packing algorithms to improve the system throughput and the fairness among users jointly. To demonstrate the practicability and effectiveness of BlocHIE, we implement BlocHIE in a minimal-viable-product way and evaluate the proposed packing algorithms extensively.

Subfields: Computer Networks and Communications, Information Systems

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Blockchain for Secure EHRs Sharing of Mobile Cloud Based E-Health Systems (2019, background): “Blockchain with its decentralized and trustworthy nature has demonstrated immense potentials in various e-health sectors such as secure sharing of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) and data access management among multiple medical entities [4]–[6].”
Blockchain for Industry 4.0: A Comprehensive Review (2020, background): “Jiang et al. [110] focused on the fact that everyday huge number of healthcare-related data are produced by individuals and hospitals.”
Privacy-Preserving Solutions for Blockchain: Review and Challenges (2019, unknown): “Moreover, BlocHIE [215] is”
Applications of Blockchain Technology in Medicine and Healthcare: Challenges and Future Perspectives (2019, background): “[17] developed BloCHIE, a unique blockchain-oriented platform for healthcare information exchange.”
Applications of blockchain in ensuring the security and privacy of electronic health record systems: A survey (2020, unknown): “Jiang et al. (2018) proposed two loosely-coupled blockchain based on two kinds of healthcare data, electronic medical records (EMR) and personal healthcare data(PHD).”
Blockchain Technology in Healthcare: A Systematic Review (2019, methodology): “Other blockchain-based EMR applications include MedBlock [64], BlockHIE [48], FHIRChain [54] and MeDShare [68].”