Design of AYUSH: A blockchain-based health record management system

Abstract

We are living in a world where data is considered to be the next fuel; also, we know how much value the data is. Considering this over the health records on which a patient deals with whenever he/she goes to a hospital, the present scenario lags in securing the patients’ health record management system in order to provide more transparency over patients’ past health data. If the same was available, then data sharing between hospitals would have been much easier. If the hospital gets to know the past health history like the amount of drugs the patient is consuming as part of medication, then the doctor could make a stern decision over the disease and could also satisfy the patient with a better treatment over his symptoms. The basic problem to be dealt with these would be the privacy consideration of the patient when he/she is sharing the data. In order to tackle that problem, we are using a patient-centric health record management system under the distributed network architecture. In this paper, we are proposing a solution that makes use of the emerging blockchain (permissioned) technology to achieve this goal.