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A Blockchain Architecture for the Italian EHR System

Authors:
Fabrizio Marangio
Mario Ciampi
Mario Sicuranza
Giovanni Schmid
Angelo Esposito

Keywords: EHR; blockchain; patient-centric; architecture

Abstract:
In the last years, significant changes of important socio-economic indicators, like population growth, life expectancy increase and patient mobility, have implied the need to provide new models for health provision. Thus, several efforts have been done to adequate and evolve the current e-health systems for enabling them to gather patient health data produced by health facilities in an interoperable way and according to shared business processes. However, even if such systems are now starting at collecting health data, it is still not possible to verify that all the tasks of a specific process are correctly executed. This work presents a permissioned blockchain architecture designed to manage the Electronic Health Records of the users, able to track the operations performed by the actors involved in a health process. The architecture proposed is compliant with both the Italian Regulation on Electronic Health Record and the recently introduced GDPR. A proof-of-concept of the architecture has been developed and validated against a relevant use case.

Pages: 11 to 17

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2019

Publication date: November 24, 2019

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2519-8491

ISBN: 978-1-61208-759-7

Location: Valencia, Spain

Dates: from November 24, 2019 to November 28, 2019