Towards Patient-Centric Healthcare: Leveraging Blockchain for Electronic Health Records

This work explores the integration of blockchain technology into Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems, presenting a novel approach to overcome centralization, standardization, and security challenges in healthcare data management. By leveraging a patient-centric design, we ensure privacy, control, and trust in healthcare data, introducing blockchain's potential to enhance trust and mitigate bias across healthcare systems. Our research highlights the importance of blockchain in fostering trust and ensuring data integrity, contributing insights into overcoming inherent limitations such as slower operational speeds while maintaining quality of service. We identify challenges related to patient access and transaction times, emphasizing the need for further research to optimize blockchain's use in healthcare. We believe our novel approach offers practical steps towards realizing blockchain's potential in creating a more equitable, secure, and trusted healthcare ecosystem.