Research on the application of blockchain technology in the sharing of electronic medical records

Electronic health records contain the occurrence, development and treatment of patients' diseases, and have a high medical value. Due to the privacy and sensitivity of medical data, data sharing and privacy protection are key issues for electronic medical records. Aiming at the characteristics of decentralization and tamper resistance of the blockchain, an electronic medical record sharing model based on the blockchain is proposed. First, a private chain and an alliance chain are built to store the encrypted electronic medical and electronic medical's security index records of users, respectively. Second, a combination of distributed key generation technology and a type and identity based proxy re-encryption scheme is proposed, and a multi-center scheme is designed as a data sharing protocol, which uses the entrusted-proof-of-rights-and-interests algorithm to select proxy nodes. Finally, an analysis and calculation of the proposed scheme and the existing scheme in various aspects such as tamper resistance and attack resistance are conducted. The result shows that the scheme consumes less energy in terms of communication overhead and computing power so that it can achieve the safe sharing of medical data effectively.