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How blockchain could empower ehealth: An application for radiation oncology: (Extended abstract)

  • University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland
  • Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne
  • Stony Brook University

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Abstract

Electronic medical records (EMRs) contain critical, highly sensitive private healthcare information, and need to be frequently shared among peers. Blockchain provides a shared, immutable and transparent history of all the transactions to build applications with trust, accountability and transparency. This provides a unique opportunity to develop a secure and trustable EMR data management and sharing system using blockchain. In this paper, we discuss our perspectives on blockchain based healthcare data management and present a prototype of a framework for managing and sharing EMR data for cancer patient care.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationData Management and Analytics for Medicine and Healthcare - 3rd International Workshop, DMAH 2017 Held at VLDB 2017, Proceedings
EditorsEdmon Begoli, Gang Luo, Fusheng Wang
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages3-6
Number of pages4
ISBN (Print)9783319671857
DOIs
StatePublished - 2017
Event3rd International Workshop on Data Management and Analytics for Medicine and Healthcare, DMAH 2017 held in conjunction with the 43rd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, VLDB 2017 - Munich, Germany
Duration: Sep 1 2017Sep 1 2017

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume10494 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference3rd International Workshop on Data Management and Analytics for Medicine and Healthcare, DMAH 2017 held in conjunction with the 43rd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, VLDB 2017
Country/TerritoryGermany
CityMunich
Period09/1/1709/1/17

Keywords

  • Blockchain
  • eHealth
  • EMR
  • Radiation oncology

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