Identity and Access Management with Blockchain in Electronic Healthcare Records
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Mikula, Tomas; Jacobsen, Rune Hylsberg
- Source
- 2018 21st Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design (DSD) DSD Digital System Design (DSD), 2018 21st Euromicro Conference on. :699-706 Aug, 2018
- Subject
- Computing and Processing
Medical services
Contracts
Authentication
Authorization
Public key
Blockchain, authentication, authorization, electronic health records
- Language
Blockchain has proved itself to be tamper resistant and secure. It is increasingly getting attention from companies changing from centralized to decentralized systems. This paper proposes a system for identity and access management using blockchain technology to support authentication and authorization of entities in a digital system. A prototype demonstrates the application of blockchain in identity and access management using the Hyperledger Fabric framework. It provides a proof of concept based on a use case concerning Electronic Health Records from the healthcare domain where an immutable and auditable history is desired for data concerning patients. Basic authentication and authorization operations are able to execute in 2-3 seconds with an initial size of blockchain of about 3.8 MB covering physicians in Denmark.