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DOI Prefix: 10.47001/IRJIET
Recent
years have witnessed a paradigm shift in the storage of Electronic Health
Records (EHRs) on mobile cloud environments, where mobile devices are
integrated with cloud computing to facilitate medical data exchanges among
patients and healthcare providers. This advanced model enables healthcare
services with low operational cost, high flexibility, and EHRs availability.
However, this new paradigm also raises concerns about data privacy and network
security for e-health systems. How to reliably share EHRs among mobile users
while guaranteeing high-security levels in the mobile cloud is a challenging
issue. In this paper, we propose a novel EHRs sharing framework that combines
blockchain and the decentralized interplanetary file system (IPFS) on a mobile cloud
platform. Particularly, we design a trustworthy access control mechanism using
smart contracts to achieve secure EHRs sharing among different patients and
medical providers. We present a prototype implementation using Ethereum
blockchain in a real data sharing scenario on a mobile app with Amazon cloud
computing. The empirical results show that our proposal provides an effective
solution for reliable data exchanges on mobile clouds while preserving
sensitive health information against potential threats. The system evaluation
and security analysis also demonstrate the performance improvements in
lightweight access control design, minimum network latency with high security
and data privacy levels, compared to the existing data sharing models.
Country : India
IRJIET, Volume 5, Issue 6, June 2021 pp. 69-71