Cloud-based Blockchain Technology for Personal Health
AUTHORS
Sang Young Lee,Namseoul University, South Korea
ABSTRACT
The modern paradigm for healthcare has been changing from treatment to management. For the management, it is important to record information not only about diseases and their treatment processes but about routine and periodic health conditions. The environment of medical information is shifting from recording and saving into an EMR system to saving into PHR. Cloud computing means storing and accessing data and programs over the Internet instead of on a local hard drive. A Cloud is an appropriate alternative because it has an easy environment where the integrated PHR is easily built and processed while keeping the system under various EMR systems. The concept of the current medical paradigm has been changing from treatment to management. For the management, it is important to know the current health conditions, but the existing diseases and their treatment processes. The environment of medical information is shifting from recording and to saving into PHR which is an integrated record of EMR information and subsidiary patients’ health information. PHR is very easy to check patients’ health condition, which is suitable for the customized medical service. This study provided how to apply blockchain technology to the medical field and utilize it for PHR applications. For these applications, it suggested architecture for gateway application of healthcare data to control and share PHR data more easily and securely.
KEYWORDS
PHR, Blockchain, Healthcare, Framework
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