AU2021106384A4 - A method and sysetm for improving the security and privacy of healthcare records using a proposed blockchain-based distributed application - Google Patents
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Abstract
The present disclosure relates to a method and system for improving the security and
privacy of healthcare records using a proposed blockchain-based distributed application. The
method comprises: registering a heathcare center, wherein credentials are obtained and a unique
ID is assigned; sharing the credential and ID with the healthcare center; and providing the
medical certificate whenever a user requests. The proposed system comprises; a healthcare
expert unit; the DA unit; and the blockchain network unit. The present disclosure proposes a
distributed application (DA) for creating and maintaining the health documents along with
preserving their privacy using a public blockchain-based system, wherein an Ethereum network
is used. The proposed application provides an interface between the blockchain network and
healthcare experts which are healthcare centers. The proposed disclosure ensures security of
healthcare documents by specifying rules with a smart contract.
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The present disclosure relates to a method and system for improving the security and privacy of healthcare records using a proposed blockchain-based distributed application.
One of the main concerns regarding the healthcare documents has been its privacy and availability. Present healthcare system is very much vulnerable to many cyber security threats such as cyber attacks using malware and ransomware which are very harmful. In earlier healthcare approaches, the healthcare data is made secure using encryption and embedding algorithms but these approaches have failed in protecting the data and there has been major breaches in the healthcare data. For maintain the large amount of healthcare data, database management system and cloud management system has been used for maintaining the medical credential but these methods have failed in reducing the middle man and many modification attacks.
Nowadays it's very easy for attackers to modify, duplicate, and legalize any medical certificate identity by breaching into the data privacy. Therefore the need is make an efficient and secure technology which can preserve the privacy of the medical healthcare data with which a blockchain-based application can help and eliminate the security and privacy issues, wherein a blockchain provides many benefits such as immutability, openness, decentralization and many other benefits which can eliminate the security threats. There have been many previous studies as well regarding the use of blockchain for managing the heath records but there is still need for improvement and maintaining authentication. Therefore there is a need for a method and system for improving the security and privacy of healthcare records using a proposed blockchain-based distributed application.
The present disclosure relates to a method and system for improving the security and privacy of healthcare records using a proposed blockchain-based distributed application. The present disclosure proposes a privacy preserving distributed application (DA) for maintaining and creating the healthcare documents using a pubic blockchain-based expert system. The architecture of the proposed system works as logic-based expert system for generating and issuing medical documents, wherein the system utilizes the Ethereum public blockchain network with the proof of stack consortium algorithm. The proposed blockchain architecture stores and maintain the Merkle root hash of the certificate along with a unique transaction ID, wherein the ID is used by the user for accessing medical documents instead of carrying them physically where the user can show the transaction ID for projecting the certificates. The user can access the documents at any time and at any place. The application works as an interface between the user and the healthcare objects such as healthcare centers, verifiers, and authorities for generating and issuing medical documents. The security of the healthcare documents are ensured by specifying rules with a smart contract. The proposed system prevents an unauthorized access to the medical documents and ensures their secure preservation. The proposed system also improves the speed of the document verification process by storing the documents.
The present disclosure seeks to provide a method for improving the security and privacy of healthcare records using a proposed blockchain-based distributed application. The method comprises: registering a healthcare center in the blockchain network, wherein the healthcare center sends a registration request to the DA and then DA checks for the registration information and obtains the credential from the Ethereum network and stores the information of the healthcare center in the blockchain network, and wherein a registered healthcare center is assigned with a unique ID which is maintained over a blockchain network; sharing the obtained credentials from blockchain network with the healthcare center via DA; and providing the medical certificate requested by a user from the registered healthcare center, wherein the healthcare center send the user's request to the DA along with the user details and then DAgenerates the requested medical certificate with a unique hash value (BCTID), wherein the generated certificate's unique ID is stored in the blockchain network by DA, and wherein the user can access the medical certificate anytime and from anywhere using certificate's unique ID.
The present disclosure also seeks to provide a system for improving the security and privacy of healthcare records using a proposed blockchain-based distributed application. The system comprises: a healthcare expert unit for sending the requests from the user to the DA and for providing unique ID to the user, wherein the healthcare experts consists of healthcare centers; the DA unit for checking the registration details provided by healthcare center and generating the requested medical certificate with a unique hash value, wherein the DA obtains the credential from blockchain network and which are provide to the healthcare center, wherein the information of the health care center is stored in a blockchain network, and wherein the DA acts as an interface between the healthcare centers and blockchain network; and the blockchain network alsoprocesses the information sent by DA by performing tasks such as mining and also assigns a unique ID.
An objective of the present disclosure is to provide a method and system for improving the security and privacy of healthcare records using a proposed blockchain-based distributed application.
Another object of the present disclosure is to utilize the Ethereum public blockchain network with proof of stack consortium algorithm
Another object of the present disclosure is to maintain a transaction ID with Merkle root hash of the certificate, wherein the ID can be used for accessing the documents at any time and at any place by the user.
Another object of the present disclosure is to create an interface between the blockchain based system and the end user such as hospitals, physicians, and regulatory agencies.
Yet, another object of the present disclosure is to eliminate the unauthorized access of the healthcare data and maintain the medical certificates and documents.
To further clarify advantages and features of the present disclosure, a more particular description of the invention will be rendered by reference to specific embodiments thereof, which is illustrated in the appended drawings. It is appreciated that these drawings depict only typical embodiments of the invention and are therefore not to be considered limiting of its scope. The invention will be described and explained with additional specificity and detail with the accompanying drawings.
These and other features, aspects, and advantages of the present disclosure will become better understood when the following detailed description is read with reference to the accompanying drawings in which like characters represent like parts throughout the drawings, wherein:
Figure 1 illustrates a flow chart of a method for improving the security and privacy of healthcare records using a proposed blockchain-based distributed application in accordance with an embodiment of the present disclosure;
Figure 2 illustrates a block diagram of a system for improving the security and privacy of healthcare records using a proposed blockchain-based distributed application in accordance with an embodiment of the present disclosure;
Figure 3 illustrates the proposed architecture of the blockchain-based system in accordance with an embodiment of the present disclosure;
Figure 4 illustrates the overall flow of the proposed architecture in accordance with an embodiment of the present disclosure;
Further, skilled artisans will appreciate that elements in the drawings are illustrated for simplicity and may not have been necessarily been drawn to scale. For example, the flow charts illustrate the method in terms of the most prominent steps involved to help to improve understanding of aspects of the present disclosure. Furthermore, in terms of the construction of the device, one or more components of the device may have been represented in the drawings by conventional symbols, and the drawings may show only those specific details that are pertinent to understanding the embodiments of the present disclosure so as not to obscure the drawings with details that will be readily apparent to those of ordinary skill in the art having benefit of the description herein.
For the purpose of promoting an understanding of the principles of the invention, reference will now be made to the embodiment illustrated in the drawings and specific language will be used to describe the same. It will nevertheless be understood that no limitation of the scope of the invention is thereby intended, such alterations and further modifications in the illustrated system, and such further applications of the principles of the invention as illustrated therein being contemplated as would normally occur to one skilled in the art to which the invention relates.
It will be understood by those skilled in the art that the foregoing general description and the following detailed description are exemplary and explanatory of the invention and are not intended to be restrictive thereof.
Reference throughout this specification to "an aspect", "another aspect" or similar language means that a particular feature, structure, or characteristic described in connection with the embodiment is included in at least one embodiment of the present disclosure. Thus, appearances of the phrase "in an embodiment", "in another embodiment" and similar language throughout this specification may, but do not necessarily, all refer to the same embodiment.
The terms "comprises", "comprising", or any other variations thereof, are intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion, such that a process or method that comprises a list of steps does not include only those steps but may include other steps not expressly listed or inherent to such process or method. Similarly, one or more devices or sub-systems or elements or structures or components proceeded by "comprises...a" does not, without more constraints, preclude the existence of other devices or other sub-systems or other elements or other structures or other components or additional devices or additional sub-systems or additional elements or additional structures or additional components.
Unless otherwise defined, all technical and scientific terms used herein have the same meaning as commonly understood by one of ordinary skill in the art to which this invention belongs. The system, methods, and examples provided herein are illustrative only and not intended to be limiting.
Embodiments of the present disclosure will be described below in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.
Figure 1 illustrates a flow chart of a method for improving the security and privacy of healthcare records using a proposed blockchain-based distributed application in accordance with an embodiment of the present disclosure. At step 102 the method 100 includes, registering a healthcare center in the blockchain network, wherein the healthcare center sends a registration request to the DA and then DA checks for the registration information and obtains the credential from the Ethereum network and stores the information of the healthcare center in the blockchain network, and wherein a registered healthcare center is assigned with a unique ID which is maintained over a blockchain network.
At step 104 the method 100 includes, sharing the obtained credentials from blockchain network with the healthcare center via DA.
At step 106 the method 100 includes, providing the medical certificate requested by a user from the registered healthcare center, wherein the healthcare center send the user's request to the DA along with the user details and then DA generates the requested medical certificate with a unique hash value (BCTID), wherein the generated certificate's unique ID is stored in the blockchain network by the DA, and wherein the user can access the medical certificate anytime and from anywhere using certificate's unique ID.
In an embodiment, the DA is a blockchain-based framework which supports the public network with a distributed file system, wherein the Ethereum which is an open-source blockchain network is used for implementing medical certificates repository which uses a consensus algorithm as proof of work.
In an embodiment, the proposed DA maintain ledger records, detect anomalies, and provides a protection against any kind of unauthorized actions, wherein the DA acts a interface between the healthcare experts and the blockchain network.
In an embodiment, the doctors check for the validity of the received details such as ill health, symptoms, treatment period and more from the user.
In an embodiment, each task has some time-bound to perform its function.
In an embodiment, the proposed method ensures security by specifying rules with smart contract, and wherein the proposed method is found to be more efficient than any other existing schemes.
Figure 2 illustrates a block diagram of a system for improving the security and privacy of healthcare records using a proposed blockchain-based distributed application in accordance with an embodiment of the present disclosure. The system 200 includes a healthcare expert unit 202 for sending the requests from user to the DA and for providing unique ID to the user, wherein the healthcare experts consists of healthcare centers.
In an embodiment, the DA unit 204 is used for checking the registration details provided by healthcare center and generating the requested medical certificate with a unique hash value, wherein the DA obtains the credential from blockchain network and which are provide to the healthcare center, wherein the information of the health care center is stored in a blockchain network, and wherein the DA acts as an interface between the healthcare centers and blockchain network.
In an embodiment, an intelligent agent unit 206 is used for processing the information sent by the DA by performing tasks such as mining, wherein the blockchain network assigns a unique ID.
Figure 3 illustrates the proposed architecture of the blockchain-based system in accordance with an embodiment of the present disclosure. The proposed blockchain-based system consist four components which are a user, healthcare expert, DA, and blockchain network. At the first step the hospitals or healthcare center sends a request for the registration to the DA and then the DA checks for the information provided for the registration, after obtaining the credential from the Ethereum network, the information of the healthcare center is stored in the blockchain network. Once the information is stored the DA shares the obtained credentials with the healthcare experts which are healthcare centers in this case. When a user request the medical document from the registered healthcare experts, then healthcare experts send the respective request to the DA with the details of the user. After receiving the request, the DA generates the requested medical document with a unique ID and stores the information of the user in the blockchain network. The DA then share the unique generated ID of the certificate with the user and the healthcare center. Now with the help of the unique ID of the healthcare certificate, user can access the generated certificate from anywhere and at any time.
Figure 4 illustrates the overall flow of the proposed architecture in accordance with an embodiment of the present disclosure. The main objects of the proposed application are health care centers, users, DA, and the blockchain platform. First the healthcare center registers itself by submitting their credentials, wherein the registration is done with the help of regulatory authority. The authority verifies the credential and a unique ID has been assign which is maintained over a blockchain network. When the user requests healthcare center for any medical certificates, then the request is processed in the healthcare centers by the verification of the credentials provided by the user and then connects it with the blockchain via DA and Metamask wallet. The DA generates a medical certificate with a unique hash value (BCTID) and stores the generated medical certificate's unique ID on the blockchain network. The unique ID of the certificate is provided to the user and healthcare center, wherein the user can use the provided ID for accessing the requested healthcare certificate at any time.
The drawings and the forgoing description give examples of embodiments. Those skilled in the art will appreciate that one or more of the described elements may well be combined into a single functional element. Alternatively, certain elements may be split into multiple functional elements. Elements from one embodiment may be added to another embodiment. For example, orders of processes described herein may be changed and are not limited to the manner described herein. Moreover, the actions of any flow diagram need not be implemented in the order shown; nor do all of the acts necessarily need to be performed. Also, those acts that are not dependent on other acts may be performed in parallel with the other acts. The scope of embodiments is by no means limited by these specific examples. Numerous variations, whether explicitly given in the specification or not, such as differences in structure, dimension, and use of material, are possible. The scope of embodiments is at least as broad as given by the following claims.
Benefits, other advantages, and solutions to problems have been described above with regard to specific embodiments. However, the benefits, advantages, solutions to problems, and any component(s) that may cause any benefit, advantage, or solution to occur or become more pronounced are not to be construed as a critical, required, or essential feature or component of any or all the claims.
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1. A method for improving the security and privacy of healthcare records using a proposed blockchain-based distributed application, the method comprises:
registering a healthcare center in the blockchain network, wherein the healthcare center sends a registration request to the DA and then the DA checks for the registration information and obtains the credential from the Ethereum network and stores the information of the healthcare center in the blockchain network, and wherein a registered healthcare center is assigned with a unique ID which is maintained over a blockchain network; sharing the obtained credentials from blockchain network with the healthcare center via DA; and providing the medical certificate requested by a user from the registered healthcare center, wherein the healthcare center send the user's request to the DA along with the user details and then the DA generates the requested medical certificate with a unique hash value (BCTID), wherein the generated certificate's unique ID is stored in the blockchain network by the DA, and wherein the user can access the medical certificate anytime and from anywhere using certificate's unique ID.
2. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the DA is a blockchain-based framework which supports the public blockchain with a distributed file system, wherein the Ethereum which is an open-source blockchain network is used for implementing medical certificates repository which uses a consensus algorithm as proof of work.
3. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the proposed DA maintain ledger records, detect anomalies, and provides a protection against any kind of unauthorized actions, wherein the DA acts an interface between the healthcare experts and the blockchain network.
4. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the doctors check for the validity of the received details such as ill-health, symptoms, treatment period and more from the user.
5. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein each task has some time-bound to perform its function.
6. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the proposed method ensures security by specifying rules with smart contract, and wherein the proposed method is found to be more efficient than any other existing schemes.
7. A system for improving the security and privacy of healthcare records using a proposed blockchain-based distributed application, the system comprises:
a healthcare expert unit for sending the requests from the user to the DA and for providing unique ID to the user, wherein the healthcare experts consists of healthcare centers; the DA unit for checking the registration details provided by healthcare center and generating the requested medical certificate with a unique hash value, wherein the DA obtains the credential from blockchain network and which are provide to the healthcare center, wherein the information of the healthcare center is stored in a blockchain network, and wherein the DA acts as an interface between the healthcare centers and blockchain network; and
the blockchain unit for processing the information sent by the DA by performing tasks such as mining, wherein the blockchain network assigns a unique ID.
registering a healthcare center in the blockchain network, wherein the healthcare center sends a registration request to the DA and then the DA checks for the registration information and obtains the credential from the Ethereum network and stores the information of the 102 healthcare center in the blockchain network, and wherein a registered healthcare center is assigned with a unique ID which is maintained over a blockchain network
104 sharing the obtained credentials from blockchain network with the healthcare center via DA
p providing the medical certificate requested by a user from the registered healthcare center, wherein g q y g , the healthcare center send the user’s request to the DA along with the user details and then the DA 106 generates the requested medical certificate with a unique hash value (BCT_ID), wherein the generated certificate’s unique ID is stored in the blockchain network by the DA, and wherein the user can access the medical certificate anytime and from anywhere using certificate’s unique ID.
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