Cloud-Assisted EHR Sharing With Security and Privacy Preservation via Consortium Blockchain

• Published in: IEEE access Vol. 7; pp. 136704 - 136719
• Main Authors: Wang, Yong, Zhang, Aiqing, Zhang, Peiyun, Wang, Huaqun
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Piscataway IEEE 2019; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Access control; Algorithms; Blockchain; Cloud computing; Consortia; Cryptography; Data privacy; Data search; Data security; data sharing; Electronic health records; Encryption; Medical diagnostic imaging; Medical research; Performance evaluation; Physicians; Privacy; privacy preservation; Security

The sharing of electronic health records (EHRs) has great positive significance for research of disease and doctors' diagnosis. In recent years, cloud-based electronic medical record sharing scheme has brought a lot of conveniences, but the centralization of cloud exposes threats inevitably to...