Impact Factor (2025): 6.9
DOI Prefix: 10.47001/IRJIET
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healthcare industry has seen a radical change from version 1.0 to version 4.0.
Electronic health records (EHRs) were introduced with version 2.0, while
version 1.0 was primarily targeted towards doctors. One benefit of the
proliferation of IoT technologies—which includes telemedicine, cloud computing,
fog computing, and the Internet of Things—is the improvement in data
communication and the shift toward a patient-centered approach to healthcare.
Nevertheless, it has always been challenging to design a secure technique for
healthcare 4.0. Email accounts, messages, and reports belonging to patients
could be vulnerable to hackers if healthcare providers employ an unsecured
technique. On the other hand, a safe healthcare system may make everyone happy,
from patients to caregivers. In order to prevent authorized user components of
E-healthcare systems from compromising data, further precautions must be taken
when storing, accessing, and exchanging patient medical information on the
cloud. To date, numerous cryptographic algorithms have been developed to ensure
the safety of medical records whether stored, transmitted, or accessed via the
cloud. However, these traditional solutions failed to meet the demands of
electronic health record security in areas such as computational efficiency,
service side verification, user side verifications, the absence of a trusted
third party, and robust security. The capacity of blockchain-based security
solutions to offer robust protection for data storage and sharing with minimal
computational effort has recently garnered a lot of interest. Academics mostly
focused on Bitcoin technology when they discussed the blockchain. Recently,
there has been a surge in interest in using the blockchain for secure
healthcare record management. This study presents a comprehensive review of
existing blockchain-based solutions for medical data security, including those
that utilize and do not utilize cloud computing. Several approaches based on
blockchain are implemented and evaluated in this article. Results from this
study that support new Healthcare 4.0 technologies include research gaps,
difficulties, and a future roadmap based on the findings.
Country : USA
IRJIET, Volume 9, Issue 1, January 2025 pp. 175-181