Chapter 16: Privacy-preserving patient-centric electronic health records exchange using blockchain

Mohammad Ahmad1, Chamitha De Alwis2, Mitul Shukla2, and Paul Sant3     1Institute for Research in Applicable Computing, University of Bedfordshire, Luton, United Kingdom     2School of Computer Science and Technology, University of Bedfordshire, Luton, United Kingdom     3Department of Computer Science, The University of Law, London, United Kingdom

Abstract

The global electronic health records (EHRs) market is expected to reach USD 38.5 billion by 2030. This growth is expected owing to reasons, such as the digitalization of healthcare systems, and wearable healthcare devices. However, this raises the challenge to preserve the privacy of EHRs when massive ...

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