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Patient Managed Patient Health Record Based on Blockchain Technology

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Part of the book series: Studies in Systems, Decision and Control ((SSDC,volume 313))

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Patients would like to be at the center of the entire information exchange process between medical entities and gain control over their data and further medical decisions. The use of blockchain technology may create this possibility. The work describes the most important aspects of the blockchain technology and digital medical records. The challenges faced by architects of PHR systems based on blockchain are presented. Examples of theoretical and existing solutions are examined and their weaknesses are quoted. We propose a new solutions to this issue. Our main goal is to preserve the characteristics of blockchain without robbing it of its most important advantages.

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  1. Department of Applied Computer Science, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Automatics, Computer Science and Biomedical Engineering, AGH University of Science and Technology, al. Mickiewicza 30, 30-059, Kraków, Poland

    Konrad Zaworski & Marcin Szpyrka

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  1. Institute of Control and Computation Engineering, University of Zielona Góra, Zielona Góra, Poland

    Józef Korbicz

  2. Institute of Control and Computation Engineering, University of Zielona Góra, Zielona Góra, Poland

    Krzysztof Patan

  3. Institute of Control and Computation Engineering, University of Zielona Góra, Zielona Góra, Poland

    Marcel Luzar

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Zaworski, K., Szpyrka, M. (2021). Patient Managed Patient Health Record Based on Blockchain Technology. In: Korbicz, J., Patan, K., Luzar, M. (eds) Advances in Diagnostics of Processes and Systems. Studies in Systems, Decision and Control, vol 313. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58964-6_13

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