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Healthcare data are grabbing the interest of cyber attackers in recent years. Annihilating consequences of healthcare data could be alleviated through decentralization. A peer to peer (P2P) network enables the property of decentralization, where different parties can store and run computation while keeping the sensitive health data private. Blockchain technology leverages decentralized or distributed process, which ensures the accountability and integrity of its use. This paper presents a patient centric healthcare data management system by using Blockchain as storage to attain privacy. Pseudonymity is ensured by using the cryptographic functions to protect patient’s data.
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Al Omar, A., Rahman, M.S., Basu, A., Kiyomoto, S. (2017). MediBchain: A Blockchain Based Privacy Preserving Platform for Healthcare Data. In: Wang, G., Atiquzzaman, M., Yan, Z., Choo, KK. (eds) Security, Privacy, and Anonymity in Computation, Communication, and Storage. SpaCCS 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10658. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72395-2_49
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