Pre Settlement in Insurance for Hospital Treatment Using Cryptocurrency and Blockchain Technology

Abstract

Security and privacy of patients’ data is a major concern in the healthcare industry. In this paper, we propose a system that activates robust security and privacy of patients’ medical records as well as enables interoperability and data exchange between the different healthcare providers. The work proposes the shift from patient’s electronic health records being managed and controlled by the healthcare industry to a patient-centric application where patients are in control of their data. The aim of this research is to build an Electronic Healthcare Record (EHR) system that is layered on the Ethereum blockchain platform and smart contract in order to eliminate the need of third party system. With this system healthcare provider can search for patient data and request the patient consents to access it. Patients manage their data which enables the expedited data exchange across HER systems. Each patient data are stored on the peer to peer node ledger. The proposed patient centric HER platform is cross platform compliant, as it can be accessed via personal computers and mobile device and facilitates interoperability across healthcare providers as patient’s medical record are gathered from different healthcare providers and stored in a unified format.