Securing Electronic Health Record in Edge Computing Environment using Block Chain Technology

Abstract

Electronic medical record (EMR) is of prime importance in the medical field. A huge amount of physical information has been generated by using different electronic devices, such as wearable devices and mobile devices, and different medical reports generated by laboratories. Edge computing is used for processing and storage of data at the edge of the network, at the same time, data fusion is needed as physical information is collected from different electronic devices in different formats. Privacy of data is most confidential as it contains tailored information about each patient. Block chain technology is the emerging solution to protect the healthcare record. In block chain technology, there is rapid development, especially in edge computing, before uploading the data. This paper mainly focused on securing EMR on the cloud, so for securing the data, here proposed block chain technology. Block chain technology is applied for storing patient’s medical information, which is distributed in several different blocks. As medical information is distributed in no of blocks, patient’s privacy is maintained. To securely store EMRs, the suggested approach makes use of Inter-Planetary File System (IPFS), Edwards-curve Digital Signature Algorithm (EdDSA), Rivest Shamir and Adleman (RSA), and Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) techniques.