A Novel Information Security Framework for Securing Big Data in Healthcare Environment Using Blockchain †
Abstract
:1. Introduction
- Ensuring confidentiality of sensitive patient data: information security is essential for preserving the privacy of protected health information (PHI) and maintaining patient trust.
- Safeguarding data integrity: information security protects the integrity of healthcare data by guarding against unauthorized access, modification, or destruction.
- Detecting and preventing breaches: information security systems monitor for unusual activity and alert administrators to potential intrusions into the system.
2. Materials and Methods
- Data volatility: Data migration can be hindered by unexpected data volatility. This is when data are changing or mutating in the source system, making it difficult to ensure a successful transfer of all data. This can be caused by human error or changes to the source system that are not communicated prior to the data migration.
- Data silos: Legacy systems often contain multiple disconnected or isolated data silos, meaning that full data integration and big-picture analysis is difficult to achieve. Data mapping and cleansing is often needed to successfully transfer data between silos.
- Data quality: Legacy systems may contain data that are inaccurate, incomplete or out of date. Data quality checks on the source system are needed to ensure that the data are usable in the new system, in addition to data cleansing and transformation activities.
- Legacy software and hardware: Sometimes it is difficult to map data from the existing system as it is outdated or in an uncommon format. This may require custom coding to successfully integrate data from the source system to the target system.
- Security and regulatory challenges: Data protection must be considered throughout the data migration process. Data security at rest and in-flight must be ensured, whether moving data within the same organization, across systems or through the cloud.
- Data tampering: Blockchain technology enables the secure and immutable storage of healthcare records, preventing malicious actors from tampering with data on the blockchain.
- Data breaches: As opposed to traditional methods of storing healthcare data, blockchain’s distributed ledger system ensures that there are no single points of failure for malicious actors to exploit, preventing large-scale data breaches.
- Data privacy: With Blockchain, healthcare organizations and patients can transmit data with complete privacy, as data is encrypted and stored securely within the network, using secure protocols such as encryption and hashing.
- Access control: Blockchain enables the implementation of effective access controls, providing healthcare organizations and patients with the ability to control who can access their data, limiting unauthorized access.
- Authentication: The Blockchain platform provides the necessary infrastructure to verify that the users accessing the system are who they say they are, preventing identity theft and ensuring the data is only used by legitimate users.
2.1. Proposed Model
2.2. Operating Principle
- Establish connections with existing healthcare IT systems. Verify that the existing IT systems are compatible with the new system and that they will be able to interact with each other. Make any modifications necessary to ensure compatibility.
- Create a transition plan for transitioning from the existing IT systems to the new system. Outline all necessary steps, such as data migration, user training, and system testing, and develop a timeline for completing each step.
- Develop a strategy for data migration. Create scripts to ensure that data is accurately and securely transferred from the existing systems to the new system, making any necessary modifications along the way to ensure data accuracy.
- Train users on the new system. Develop comprehensive user training materials and conduct regularly scheduled training sessions to ensure that all users are familiar with the new system and how to use it.
- Test and debug the new system. Run rigorous tests to detect any potential problems or bugs and develop a plan to fix them.
- Finalize data migration. Make any necessary adjustments to the data migration scripts and ensure that all data has been successfully transferred to the new system.
- Clinical trials: Clinical trials are extremely complex and depend on the secure transfer of data between patients, researchers, labs, and other stakeholders. Blockchain technology could provide a secure platform for researchers to securely connect to and exchange relevant medical data. This could enable faster recruitment, reduce errors, and ensure the data is securely stored.
- Electronic medical records (EMRs): EMRs are an important tool for promoting patient data accuracy, privacy, and security. The Blockchain could be used to ensure data security and immutability, as well as provide better patient authentication methods. With improved authentication, the Blockchain could also help to reduce medical identity fraud.
- Drug supply chain: The Blockchain could be used to improve the security, transparency, and efficiency of the drug supply chain. By providing a secure, decentralized platform for tracking medical supplies, the Blockchain could ensure drug data is immutable, reliable, and up-to-date.
- Medical insurance: The Blockchain could be used to securely store and transfer medical insurance information. This could eliminate paperwork and improve the accuracy and security of insurance transactions. The Blockchain could also be used to facilitate secure online payments for medical services and reduce overall costs.
- Medical billing: The Blockchain could be used to securely store and share patient data across multiple billing providers. This could reduce errors, increase accuracy, and ensure payments are accurate and on time.
3. Results and Discussion
3.1. Security Management
3.2. Network Management
3.3. Attacks Management
4. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Venugopal, L.K.; Rajaganapathi, R.; Birjepatil, A.; Raja, S.E.; Subramaniam, G. A Novel Information Security Framework for Securing Big Data in Healthcare Environment Using Blockchain. Eng. Proc. 2023, 59, 107. https://doi.org/10.3390/engproc2023059107
Venugopal LK, Rajaganapathi R, Birjepatil A, Raja SE, Subramaniam G. A Novel Information Security Framework for Securing Big Data in Healthcare Environment Using Blockchain. Engineering Proceedings. 2023; 59(1):107. https://doi.org/10.3390/engproc2023059107
Chicago/Turabian StyleVenugopal, Lakshman Kannan, Rajappan Rajaganapathi, Abhishek Birjepatil, Sundararajan Edwin Raja, and Gnanasaravanan Subramaniam. 2023. "A Novel Information Security Framework for Securing Big Data in Healthcare Environment Using Blockchain" Engineering Proceedings 59, no. 1: 107. https://doi.org/10.3390/engproc2023059107
APA StyleVenugopal, L. K., Rajaganapathi, R., Birjepatil, A., Raja, S. E., & Subramaniam, G. (2023). A Novel Information Security Framework for Securing Big Data in Healthcare Environment Using Blockchain. Engineering Proceedings, 59(1), 107. https://doi.org/10.3390/engproc2023059107