A Secure and Scalable Data Source for Emergency Medical Care using Blockchain Technology

DOI

10.2991/ijndc.k.190917.001How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Permissioned blockchain network; emergency medical care; scalable blockchain

Abstract

A relationship exists between the emergency patient death rate and factors such as the failure to access a patient’s critical data and the time it takes to arrive at hospitals. The ability for Paramedics to access a patient’s complete picture of emergency-relevant medical data is critical and can significantly reduce the annual mortality rate. Today, the problem exists with a continuous recording system of the patient data between healthcare providers. In this paper, we have introduced a blockchain-based solution to record patient emergency relevant medical data as patient walks through from one medical facility to another, creating a continuous footprint of patient as a secure and scalable data source. Therefore, ambulance crews can access and use it to provide high quality pre-hospital care.

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© 2019 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - JOUR
AU  - Shirin Hasavari
AU  - Yeong-Tae Song
PY  - 2019
DA  - 2019/09/24
TI  - A Secure and Scalable Data Source for Emergency Medical Care using Blockchain Technology
JO  - International Journal of Networked and Distributed Computing
SP  - 158
EP  - 166
VL  - 7
IS  - 4
SN  - 2211-7946
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/ijndc.k.190917.001
DO  - 10.2991/ijndc.k.190917.001
ID  - Hasavari2019
ER  -