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MedSecureChain: Applying Blockchain for Delegated Access in Health Care

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New Approaches for Multidimensional Signal Processing

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Blockchain in today’s standard lacks delegated access and proper identity and access management (IAM) support. In the medical ecosystem, there are different parties, which have access to patient’s data. However, every third party must not get all the data about the patient to preserve the user’s privacy. In this paper, we present MedSecureChain, which is implemented on a private blockchain-based OAuth type authentication to protect and give the respective user control over their data. Delegated access to different categories of users is provided thus giving the user total control over his data. Asymmetric key cryptography has been used to achieve secure delegated access, wherein each different node sharing a common data uses different private keys for accessing the data that has been encrypted using the same public key.

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This work is part of the bilateral Indian-Bulgarian cooperation research project between Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria and Deenbandhu Chhotu Ram University of Science and Technology, Murthal, Sonepat, India financed by the Department of Science and Technology (DST), India and the Ministry of Education and Science, Bulgaria.

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    Tripti Rathee

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Rathee, T., Singh, P. (2021). MedSecureChain: Applying Blockchain for Delegated Access in Health Care. In: Kountchev, R., Mironov, R., Li, S. (eds) New Approaches for Multidimensional Signal Processing. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 216. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-4676-5_11

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