Enhancing Security and Privacy of IoMT Data for Unconscious Patient With Blockchain
V Maruthi, Kunwar Singh · IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management · 2025
IoMT enables continuous monitoring through connected medical devices, producing real-time health data that must be protected from unauthorised access and tampering. Blockchain ensures this security with its decentralised, tamper-resistant, and access-controlled ledger. A critical challenge arises when patients are unconscious, making timely access to their IoMT data essential for emergency treatment. To address this, we have created and designed a novel Threshold Proxy Re-Encryption+ (TPRE+) framework that integrates threshold cryptography with unidirectional, non-transitive proxy re-encryption(PRE) with Shamir’s secret sharing to distribute re-encryption capabilities among multiple proxies, reducing single-point failure and collision risks. Our contributions are threefold: (i) We first proposed a semantically secure TPRE+ scheme with Shamir-secret sharing, (ii) Construction of an IND-CCA secure TPRE+ scheme, and (iii) Development of a secure, distributed medical record storage system for unconscious patients, combining blockchain infrastructure, IPFS-based encrypted storage, and our proposed TPRE+ schemes. This integration ensures confidentiality, integrity, and fault-tolerant access to critical patient data, enabling secure and efficient deployment in real-world emergency healthcare scenarios.