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Health-ID: A Blockchain-Based Decentralized Identity Management for Remote Healthcare
COVID-19 has made eHealth an imperative. The pandemic has been a true catalyst for remote eHealth solutions such as teleHealth. Telehealth facilitates care, diagnoses, and treatment remotely, making them more efficient, accessible, and economical. However, they have a centralized identity management...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8230390/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34200778 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare9060712 |
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author | Javed, Ibrahim Tariq Alharbi, Fares Bellaj, Badr Margaria, Tiziana Crespi, Noel Qureshi, Kashif Naseer |
author_facet | Javed, Ibrahim Tariq Alharbi, Fares Bellaj, Badr Margaria, Tiziana Crespi, Noel Qureshi, Kashif Naseer |
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description | COVID-19 has made eHealth an imperative. The pandemic has been a true catalyst for remote eHealth solutions such as teleHealth. Telehealth facilitates care, diagnoses, and treatment remotely, making them more efficient, accessible, and economical. However, they have a centralized identity management system that restricts the interoperability of patient and healthcare provider identification. Thus, creating silos of users that are unable to authenticate themselves beyond their eHealth application’s domain. Furthermore, the consumers of remote eHealth applications are forced to trust their service providers completely. They cannot check whether their eHealth service providers adhere to the regulations to ensure the security and privacy of their identity information. Therefore, we present a blockchain-based decentralized identity management system that allows patients and healthcare providers to identify and authenticate themselves transparently and securely across different eHealth domains. Patients and healthcare providers are uniquely identified by their health identifiers (healthIDs). The identity attributes are attested by a healthcare regulator, indexed on the blockchain, and stored by the identity owner. We implemented smart contracts on an Ethereum consortium blockchain to facilities identification and authentication procedures. We further analyze the performance using different metrics, including transaction gas cost, transaction per second, number of blocks lost, and block propagation time. Parameters including block-time, gas-limit, and sealers are adjusted to achieve the optimal performance of our consortium blockchain. |
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spelling | pubmed-82303902021-06-26 Health-ID: A Blockchain-Based Decentralized Identity Management for Remote Healthcare Javed, Ibrahim Tariq Alharbi, Fares Bellaj, Badr Margaria, Tiziana Crespi, Noel Qureshi, Kashif Naseer Healthcare (Basel) Article COVID-19 has made eHealth an imperative. The pandemic has been a true catalyst for remote eHealth solutions such as teleHealth. Telehealth facilitates care, diagnoses, and treatment remotely, making them more efficient, accessible, and economical. However, they have a centralized identity management system that restricts the interoperability of patient and healthcare provider identification. Thus, creating silos of users that are unable to authenticate themselves beyond their eHealth application’s domain. Furthermore, the consumers of remote eHealth applications are forced to trust their service providers completely. They cannot check whether their eHealth service providers adhere to the regulations to ensure the security and privacy of their identity information. Therefore, we present a blockchain-based decentralized identity management system that allows patients and healthcare providers to identify and authenticate themselves transparently and securely across different eHealth domains. Patients and healthcare providers are uniquely identified by their health identifiers (healthIDs). The identity attributes are attested by a healthcare regulator, indexed on the blockchain, and stored by the identity owner. We implemented smart contracts on an Ethereum consortium blockchain to facilities identification and authentication procedures. We further analyze the performance using different metrics, including transaction gas cost, transaction per second, number of blocks lost, and block propagation time. Parameters including block-time, gas-limit, and sealers are adjusted to achieve the optimal performance of our consortium blockchain. MDPI 2021-06-10 /pmc/articles/PMC8230390/ /pubmed/34200778 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare9060712 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Javed, Ibrahim Tariq Alharbi, Fares Bellaj, Badr Margaria, Tiziana Crespi, Noel Qureshi, Kashif Naseer Health-ID: A Blockchain-Based Decentralized Identity Management for Remote Healthcare |
title | Health-ID: A Blockchain-Based Decentralized Identity Management for Remote Healthcare |
title_full | Health-ID: A Blockchain-Based Decentralized Identity Management for Remote Healthcare |
title_fullStr | Health-ID: A Blockchain-Based Decentralized Identity Management for Remote Healthcare |
title_full_unstemmed | Health-ID: A Blockchain-Based Decentralized Identity Management for Remote Healthcare |
title_short | Health-ID: A Blockchain-Based Decentralized Identity Management for Remote Healthcare |
title_sort | health-id: a blockchain-based decentralized identity management for remote healthcare |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8230390/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34200778 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare9060712 |
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