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Blockchain-Based Healthcare Data Management: Current Practices and Opportunities Ahead

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This paper studies the types of data stored in electronic health records (EHRs) and the associated data management practices. In addition, it explores blockchain as a technology that could facilitate trusted and privacy-preserving patient data sharing and access control management as demonstrated in several EHRs projects applying blockchain. Moreover, the paper discusses the perspective of a future adoption of a blockchain-based self-sovereign identity (SSI) in EHRs data management that could be the road ahead to ensure a patient-centric trusted data management.

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  1. School of Business, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, Peter Merian Str. 86, 4002, Basel, Switzerland

    Galia Kondova

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  1. Dept.of Pathology, College of Medicine, Univ.of Saskatchewan Royal Univ.Hospital, Saskatoon, SK, Canada

    Jay Kalra

  2. Center for Applied Sys. Engineering, Veterans Affairs, Indianapolis, IN, USA

    Nancy J. Lightner

  3. Campus du Moulin de la Housse, Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, Reims Cedex 2, France

    Redha Taiar

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Kondova, G. (2021). Blockchain-Based Healthcare Data Management: Current Practices and Opportunities Ahead. In: Kalra, J., Lightner, N.J., Taiar, R. (eds) Advances in Human Factors and Ergonomics in Healthcare and Medical Devices. AHFE 2021. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 263. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80744-3_25

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