Patient Consent Management by a Purpose-Based Consent Model for Electronic Health Record Based on Blockchain Technology
| Title: | Patient Consent Management by a Purpose-Based Consent Model for Electronic Health Record Based on Blockchain Technology |
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| Authors: | Dara Tith, Joong-Sun Lee, Hiroyuki Suzuki, W. M. A. B. Wijesundara, Naoko Taira, Takashi Obi, Nagaaki Ohyama |
| Source: | Healthcare Informatics Research, Vol 26, Iss 4, Pp 265-273 (2020) |
| Publisher Information: | The Korean Society of Medical Informatics, 2020. |
| Publication Year: | 2020 |
| Collection: | LCC:Computer applications to medicine. Medical informatics |
| Subject Terms: | health information exchange, electronic health records, blockchain, consent forms, access to information, Computer applications to medicine. Medical informatics, R858-859.7 |
| More Details: | Objectives Currently, patients’ consent is essential to use their medical records for various purposes; however, most people give their consent using paper forms and have no control over it. Healthcare organizations also have difficulties in dealing with patient consent. The objective of this research is to develop a system for patients to manage their consent flexibly and for healthcare organizations to obtain patient consent efficiently for a variety of purposes. Methods We introduce a new e-consent model, which uses a purpose-based access control scheme; it is implemented by a blockchain system using Hyperledger Fabric. All metadata of patient records, consents, and data access are written immutably on the blockchain and shared among participant organizations. We also created a blockchain chaincode that performs business logic managing patient consent. Results We developed a prototype and checked business logics with the chaincode by validating doctors’ data access with purpose-based consent of patients stored in the blockchain. The results demonstrate that our system provides a fine-grained way of handling medical staff ’s access requests with diverse intended purposes for accessing data. In addition, patients can create, update, and withdraw their consents in the blockchain. Conclusions Our consent model is a solution for consent management both for patients and healthcare organizations. Our system, as a blockchain-based solution that provides high reliability and availability with transparency and traceability, is expected to be used not only for patient data sharing in hospitals, but also for data donation for biobank research purposes. |
| Document Type: | article |
| File Description: | electronic resource |
| Language: | English |
| ISSN: | 2093-3681 2093-369X |
| Relation: | http://e-hir.org/upload/pdf/hir-2020-26-4-265.pdf; https://doaj.org/toc/2093-3681; https://doaj.org/toc/2093-369X |
| DOI: | 10.4258/hir.2020.26.4.265 |
| Access URL: | https://doaj.org/article/fd26fc413c5246f4a07657881400f7d6 |
| Accession Number: | edsdoj.fd26fc413c5246f4a07657881400f7d6 |
| Database: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
| ISSN: | 20933681 2093369X |
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| DOI: | 10.4258/hir.2020.26.4.265 |
| Published in: | Healthcare Informatics Research |
| Language: | English |