Hyperledger Fabric-Powered Digital Identity Scheme: Transforming CIA—Triad Security in IoMT Integrated Healthcare Eco-System

Abstract

This study underscores blockchain technology’s potential to tackle critical healthcare challenges, including data security, interoperability, and collaboration, delivering a scalable and efficient framework that enhances patient trust, operational efficiency, and compliance with global data protection standards. The advent of blockchain technology has radically altered centralized data management to adopt decentralized distributed systems with their inherent features—such as transparency, immutability, and security—that offer a promising answer for the challenges faced by modern healthcare systems. The authors introduce a smart healthcare solution for a secured digital identity of a patient by maintaining its Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability (CIA-triad). It customizes an open-source Hyperledger Fabric-based framework for developing and utilizing the healthcare ecosystem as per the requirements of maintaining the digital identity of a patient. In addition, it uses fabrics’ key components, such as privacy-preserving channels, endorsing peers, anchor peers, orderer nodes, and a secure consensus for an efficient collaboration among stakeholders that ensures data integrity and confidentiality. The decentralized storage feature allows secure Secure Hash Algorithm 256-bit (256-bit) during digital signature generation and verification algorithms across the network, and its one-way cryptographic function feature adds an advantage to maintain digital identity encryption both on-chain and off-chain during sharing and storing. This acts as a resistance to different cyberattacks as a record of the Common Vulnerability Scoring System scorecard. The efficiency of the proposed operational model tested in a closed experimental network gets a more balanced output than that of a test network, which may be chosen for an adoption.