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Blockchain technology has found application outside of cryptocurrency in recent times. The development of patient-centric storage of medical records on a blockchain has recently gained momentum. However, there have been few developments in providing a solution towards giving up full control to the public so that the concentration of power by only a small group of validators can be avoided. In this paper, we discuss a solution that enables patient-driven interoperability of medical records on a public blockchain while maintaining privacy using new cryptographic constructs and truly giving up control to the general public.
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Ray Chawdhuri, D. (2019). Patient Privacy and Ownership of Electronic Health Records on a Blockchain. In: Joshi, J., Nepal, S., Zhang, Q., Zhang, LJ. (eds) Blockchain – ICBC 2019. ICBC 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11521. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23404-1_7
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