Title
Security model to protect patient data in mHealth systems through a Blockchain network
Date Issued
01 January 2019
Access level
open access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
Publisher(s)
Latin American and Caribbean Consortium of Engineering Institutions
Abstract
On this research paper we propose a security model to protect patient data on mobile health systems (mHealth) through a Blockchain network. This model is implemented under a Blockchain platform that allows collecting, sharing and integrating data in a safe way through a mobile app for mHealth devices, for medical care in Peruvian clinics. This security model consists of three stages: 1. Data collection, 2. Data processing, 3. System monitoring. It should be noted that the patient is autonomous in the management of his information, and that each user requires a single identifier to get access to the data. A test scenario was defined to validate the proposed model. Also, the study was conducted with a group of users through a health mobile app and the used medical data was provided by a hospital in Peru as anonymized research data. During the study, we validated the following topics: access control to the network, access to medical information of authorized users, data integrity on each transaction and performance evaluation of the system under a high user transaction load. Preliminary results show the system average response time is 4.72 seconds for 10,000 users carrying out requests simultaneously.
Volume
2019-July
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ingeniería de sistemas y comunicaciones
Ingeniería médica
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85073588921
ISBN of the container
978-099934436-1
Conference
Proceedings of the LACCEI international Multi-conference for Engineering, Education and Technology
Sources of information:
Directorio de Producción Científica
Scopus