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Blockchain-Based Data Preservation System for Medical Data
Abstract
Medical care has become an indispensable part of people's lives, with a dramatic increase in the volume of medical data (e.g., diagnosis certificates and medical records). Medical data, however, is easily stolen, tampered with, or even completely deleted. If the above occurs, medical data cannot be recorded or retrieved in a reliable manner, resulting in delay treatment progress, even endanger the patient's life. In this paper, we propose a novel blockchain-based data preservation system (DPS) for medical data. To provide a reliable storage solution to ensure the primitiveness and verifiability of stored data while preserving privacy for users, we leverage the blockchain framework. With the proposed DPS, users can preserve important data in perpetuity, and the originality of the data can be verified if tampering is suspected. In addition, we use prudent data storage strategies and a variety of cryptographic algorithms to guarantee user privacy; e.g., an adversary is unable to read the plain text even if the data are stolen. We implement a prototype of the DPS based on the real world blockchain-based platform Ethereum. Performance evaluation results demonstrate the effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed system.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Li, H., Zhu, L., Shen, M., Gao, F., Tao, X., & Liu, S.
- Affiliations
- Beijing Institute of Technology (CN)
- Guilin University of Electronic Technology (CN)
- Corresponding author
- Shen, Meng
- Venue
- Journal of Medical Systems
- Published
- 2018-06-28
- Volume
- 42
- Issue
- 8
- Pages
- 141-141
- ISSN
- 0148-5598 (ISSN-L)
- 1573-689X
- OpenAlex
- W2810381494
- Cited by
- 347
- References
- 28
- Citations by year
- 2026: 12 · 2025: 30 · 2024: 40 · 2023: 56 · 2022: 69 · 2021: 56 · 2020: 47 · 2019: 34 · 2018: 3
- FWCI
- 56.45
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Journal of Medical Systems (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Guangxi Cooperative Innovation Center of cloud computing and Big Data (No.YD16E14)
- National Science Foundation of China under Grant (61602039)
- CCF-Venustech Open Research Fund
- BIT-UMF research and development fund
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Blockchain Technology Applications and Security
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Blockchain Technology in Education and Learning
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Cloud Data Security Solutions
- Keywords
- blockchain, medical records, data tamper detection, data integrity verification, data privacy, cryptographic algorithms, Ethereum, data storage strategies, data theft
- MeSH terms
- Algorithms, Humans, Computer Security, Privacy, Electronic Health Records
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