A security provisioned blockchain architecture for multi-purpose health information

Abstract

Blockchain is a distributed technology used with the series of users in peer-to-peer transactions to utilize the usability properties of the immutable data records. Block chains are the new domain of research and has proved its strong existence in the field of Bitcoins [1, 2]. To use this emerging technology in other fields of network based computing sciences, we have chosen the field of medical data applications as these data needs to be privacy preserving and confidentiality along with its research value. Different medical researches use such data without any predefined framework based upon cloud applications. Several health clouds are also suggested so far. In this paper, we have tried to explore the possibility of the block chain in healthcare information and medical data which will have a transparency in the usage of medical information of the patients and their further analysis.