Towards Enhanced Data Integrity and Accountability: Leveraging Blockchain Technology in Healthcare

The management of electronic health records in modern healthcare systems is crucial. To ensure confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility, regulations such as GDPR and HIPAA have been established in several countries. Various research studies have proposed the integration of blockchains into these systems to tackle some of these security issues. However, most healthcare infrastructures rely on legacy systems that lack interoperability, and thus the fusion of these with blockchain technology for managing medical records would be ineffective and costly. In our work, we propose a blockchain-based scheme for secure authorization, action recording, and integrity perseverance that can be easily integrated into typical healthcare organizations while also being scaled and maintained effectively.