Ipfs Based E Health Records Storage And Sharing System

Abstract: Medical applications are fast growing in popularity, both for professional use and for patient-centered apps. The current Health record and IoT data sharing systems however have a fair amount of problems associated with privacy and security. The major of it is the inability of sharing medical records from one hospital to another directly. Also, the unavailability of past medical records of a patient at critical times has been a very serious yet underestimated problem. The secure and privacy-aware E-Health record proposes a mechanism using Blockchain and IPFS (Inter Planetary File System) which offers a solution to all these problems. My solution proposes a system that will upload all the medical records of a patient on the IPFS network, which is decentralized. After uploading the medical records on the IPFS network, it will generate a Hash for every item uploaded on the network and store it in the database, corresponding to an id that will be unique to that patient. The IPFS data will be dispersed among the nodes. Use of IPFS (Interplanetary File System) to store health records, which has the benefit of being distributed which in turn makes records tamper-free. In addition, the proposed model keeps track of disease statistics without invading any patient's privacy. The presence of all the medical records of the patient on the IPFS network will ensure that all the medical records are easily accessible to any hospital across the globe, readily at any time, with the proper authorization from the patient itself. Any hospital will be able to access the medical records of a patient by visiting the IPFS network through their private gateway using the hash that was stored in the database at the time of uploading the records

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