BLOCKCHAIN FOR HEALTHCARE

WHAT IS BLOCKCHAIN HOW? PROTECTING HEALTH

DATA INTEGRITY
Blockchain is a public ledger for recording
and storing transactions among a group of Blockchain decentralizes the storage of
participants. health records, where interactions are
transparent and accessible to declared
A Blockchain block consists of: participants. Trail of interactions are
immutable and are reliant on established
(a) transaction details; cryptographic techniques.
(b) hash value of the transaction details;
(c) hash value of the previous transaction;
(d) a pointer to the participant that made
the transaction. FEATURES
DECENTRALIZED: There is no single
WHAT DOES IT TRY TO entity that connects all the other
members of the group.
SOLVE?
Blockchain is a technology used popularly
today in the finance and banking PUBLIC AND TRANSPARENT: Every
industries. participant sees the contents of each
of the blocks and knows if changes are
To exchange data securely across made.
healthcare systems and applications,
blockchain is being explored as a tool to
decentralize data storage and control. IMMUTABLE: No changes or deletions
can be made on each of the block.
Blockchain in healthcare does not attempt
to be a catch-all solution for ensuring
health data integrity. SECURITY: All contents of can be
encrypted securely
It demonstrates the importance of
personal health records system to
strengthen the security, privacy, and
mobility of health data through patient-
centered data sharing.

POWERED BY ASIA EHEALTH INFORMATION NETWORK (AEHIN) WITH SUPPORT FROM ASIAN
DEVELOPMENT BANK (ADB) AND CO-SPONSORSHIP BY THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA POVERTY
REDUCTION AND REGIONAL COOPERATION FUND (PRCF)
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BLOCKCHAIN BENEFITS BLOCKCHAIN RISKS

Blockchain is completely decentralized.
There is no third-party control in
Blockchain. No single entity controls
the data.
No backup is needed as all participants
has copy of the transactions.
Data is secured since data encryption
can be done to make data unreadable.
Authentication is done by using hash
the hash values of transaction data.
Trust on the data is assured since
validation is done before data is saved
in the chain.
Smart contracts can be used to put logic
on the blocks.
Regulatory Risks: Some country laws,
particularly on data privacy is not
compatible with Blockchain yet (i.e. –
put example)
Scalability: Blockchain usage is
expected to increase exponentially.
This will put additional overhead on
users, especially on low resource areas.
Database Migration: The effort to
migrate non-digital data to Blockchain
is tremendous and would require much
resources.
Targeted Security Fraud: Since security
of blockchain data will be on the hands
of the participants, it will be easier for
attackers to target the participant’s
secret keys.

POWERED BY ASIA EHEALTH INFORMATION NETWORK (AEHIN) WITH SUPPORT FROM ASIAN
DEVELOPMENT BANK (ADB) AND CO-SPONSORSHIP BY THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA POVERTY
REDUCTION AND REGIONAL COOPERATION FUND (PRCF)