Swift and Secure Medical Data Transaction

T. Sujithra*, N. M. Masoodhu Banu, N. Poornima, S. Durai

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

At present, healthcare faces several challenges in executing, sustaining, updating Electronic Healthcare Records (EHCR) in a digital era. As third party agencies are involved while sharing the records, they possess threats like lack of trust, unauthorized access, less secured systems which can be exploited easily. Furthermore, mostly the records are stored in a centralized model. It leads to data loss if there is no proper data recovery mechanism. It also leads to a security hole. In order to address these issues, we propose a model for Swift and Secure Medical Data Transaction (SSMDT). The proposed system incorporated Interplanetary File System (IPFS) and a block chain technology for providing increased security in transferring Healthcare Reports (HCR) with reduced latency. It is a decentralized and a peer to peer model. It stores the healthcare report compiled by various health monitoring sensors on IPFS using ethereum-based Decentralized App (DApp). Furthermore, encrypted data is stored in IPFS using cryptographic techniques such as Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) instead of storing plain text for providing improved security. Detailed study is done for analyzing various factors like gas consumption for file transfer, computational overhead of various cryptography algorithms such as RSA, ECC and ElGamal. According to the findings of the experiments, computational overhead of ECC is less compared to other models and it also gives increased security.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvances in Distributed Computing and Machine Learning - Proceedings of ICADCML 2022
EditorsRashmi Ranjan Rout, Soumya Kanti Ghosh, Prasanta K. Jana, Asis Kumar Tripathy, Jyoti Prakash Sahoo, Kuan-Ching Li
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages217-227
Number of pages11
ISBN (Print)9789811910173
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2022
Event3rd International Conference on Advances in Distributed Computing and Machine Learning, ICADCML 2022 - Warangal, India
Duration: 15-01-202216-01-2022

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Networks and Systems
Volume427
ISSN (Print)2367-3370
ISSN (Electronic)2367-3389

Conference

Conference3rd International Conference on Advances in Distributed Computing and Machine Learning, ICADCML 2022
Country/TerritoryIndia
CityWarangal
Period15-01-2216-01-22

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Control and Systems Engineering
  • Signal Processing
  • Computer Networks and Communications

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