Cloud-based Blockchain Technology for Personal Health
Sang‐Young Lee · International Journal of Advanced Nursing Education and Research · 2020
The modern paradigm for healthcare has been changing from treatment to management.For management, it is important to record information about diseases, their treatment processes, and routine and periodic health conditions.The medical information environment is shifting from recording and saving into an EMR system to saving into PHR.Cloud computing means storing and accessing data and programs over the Internet instead of on a local hard drive.A Cloud is an appropriate alternative because it has an accessible environment where the integrated PHR is quickly built and processed while keeping the system under various EMR systems.The current medical paradigm has been changing from treatment to management.For management, it is essential to know the current health conditions, the existing diseases, and their treatment processes.The medical information environment is shifting from recording to saving into PHR, an integrated record of EMR information and subsidiary patients' health information.PHR makes it very easy to check patients' health conditions, which is suitable for customized medical services.This study provided information on how blockchain technology can be applied to the medical field and utilized for PHR applications.For these applications, it suggested architecture for gateway application of healthcare data to control and share PHR data more efficiently and securely.