2021, Kondova, Galia, Kalra, Jay, Lightner, Nancy J., Taiar, Redha

This work 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.