An application on Consent Based Monitoring of Healthcare statistics with Blockchain
Adarsh Shailendra, Chirag Bengani, K. Shantha Kumari · 2023
The organized provisions of medical care to an individual or a community is already a difficult task. In that, providing Healthcare for the elderly, people above the age of 60 is a tough nut to crack. The current situation depicts that elderly people prefer independent lifestyles free from outside intrusion which complicates monitoring their physical health at regular intervals. Physical intervention after the onset of COVID-19 is a possibility but should be avoided unless absolutely required due to the virus’s aggressive nature. Considering all these problems, we devise a conceptual application framework of Consent Based Monitoring of Elderly with Blockchain. The application acts as a method by which we can monitor the patients at regular intervals in a secure and unbreachable manner. The application takes the consent of the patients on what data they want the application to collect and relay, and the users who can access the data including the medical professional. After this, the medical professional can analyze the data to find any anomalies and provide a diagnosis. Only with the aid of Google Authorization may the patient update the consent-based data. The novelty of the project lies in the usage of Blockchain to maintain anonymity and integrity of the consent based data. The consent based access control lists and policies are stored in Blockchain in a comprehensive schema. The Blockchain is a privately running test only Blockchain specifically used to implement decentralized application development. The backend of the application is solely responsible for uploading and querying the data while communicating with the private Blockchain. The application framework assumes that the patient’s data has already been transmitted via smaller edge computing nodes. The application works completely separate from the aforementioned nodes.