A Blockchain-based Patient-centered Patient Generated Health Data Sharing Decentralized App

Abstract

With the advancements in wearable technology, use of Patient Generated Health Data has been on the verge of making it to the normal. They provide a way for patients to generate their own health data, which gives them awareness on the state of their health, and communicate it to doctors for diagnosis. However, with traditional systems, sharing data that includes private and sensitive data can be unsafe and their data might be targeted by malicious entities. Thus, a need to develop a system where secure data sharing can be done is needed. Blockchain technology has been on a steady rise in the past few years, boasting security and performance advantages compared to traditional systems. To address these, this paper proposes a patientcentered blockchain-based system that takes advantage of the built-in security and privacy features of Blockchain.