E2EE enhanced patient-centric blockchain-based system for EHR management

Haddad, Alaa and Habaebi, Mohamed Hadi and Elsheikh, Elfatih A A and Islam, Md Rafiqul and Ahmad Zabidi, Suriza and M Suliman, Fakher Eldin (2024) E2EE enhanced patient-centric blockchain-based system for EHR management. PLoS ONE, 19 (4). pp. 1-21. ISSN 1932-6203

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Abstract

To secure sensitive medical records in the healthcare clouds, this paper proposes an Endto- End Encryption (E2EE) to enhance a patient-centric blockchain-based system for electronic health record (EHR) management. The suggested system with a focus on the patient enables individuals to oversee their medical records within various involved parties by authorizing or withdrawing permission for access to their records. Utilizing the inter-planetary file system (IPFS) for record storage is chosen due to its decentralized nature and its ability to guarantee the unchangeability of records. Then an E2EE enhancement maintains the medical data integrity using dual level-Hybrid encryption: symmetric Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) and asymmetric Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) cryptographic techniques. The proposed system is implemented using the Ethereum blockchain system for EHR data sharing and integration utilizing a web-based interface for the patient and all users to initiate the EHR sharing transactions over the IPFS cloud. The proposed system performance is evaluated in a working system prototype. For different file sizes between 512 KB to 100 MB, the performance metrics used to evaluate the proposed system were the time consumed for generating key, encryption, and decryption. The results demonstrate the proposed system’s superiority over other cutting-edge systems and its practical ability to share secure health data in cloud environments.

Item Type:	Article (Journal)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	EE2E Patient-centric blockchain EHR health record management
Subjects:	T Technology > TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering > TK7800 Electronics. Computer engineering. Computer hardware. Photoelectronic devices > TK7885 Computer engineering
Kulliyyahs/Centres/Divisions/Institutes (Can select more than one option. Press CONTROL button):	Kulliyyah of Engineering > Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Kulliyyah of Engineering
Depositing User:	Dr. Mohamed Hadi Habaebi
Date Deposited:	16 Apr 2024 12:53
Last Modified:	16 Apr 2024 12:55
URI:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/id/eprint/111742

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