Blockchain-based healthcare data processing and management: current practices and opportunities ahead

Abstract

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.