Table 1.
Existing techniques using blockchain technology in healthcare.
Fig 1.
Healthchain architecture.
Fig 2.
Overview of healthchain.
Fig 3.
Nodes in healthchain.
Fig 4.
Cryptographic process in healthchain.
Fig 5.
A snippet of the xml document showing access control permission rules.
Fig 6.
Access control permission rules for healthchain network.
Table 2.
Explanation of notations.
Fig 7.
Adding users to healthchain.
Fig 8.
Adding records to healthchain.
Fig 9.
Providing access permission.
Fig 10.
Retrieval of health records.
Table 3.
Development environment for the proposed framework.
Fig 11.
Illustration of EHR access in healthchain.
Fig 12.
Illustration of EHR access in healthchain.
Fig 13.
Illustration of provenance in healthchain.
Fig 14.
Illustration of referrals in healthchain.
Fig 15.
Illustration of creating prescription in healthchain.
Fig 16.
Storage of health records.
Fig 17.
Degree of security.
Fig 18.
Enhanced data privacy: Access control.
Fig 19.
Improved data scalability.
Table 4.
Comparative analysis.
Table 5.
Evaluation matrix.
Fig 20.
Transaction latency.
Fig 21.
Transaction latency: Montecarlo simulation.
Fig 22.
Transaction latency: Comparative analysis.
Fig 23.
Transaction throughput.
Fig 24.
Transaction throughput: Comparative analysis.
Fig 25.
Asset latency.
Fig 26.
Asset latency: Montecarlo simulation.
Fig 27.
Uploading and downloading time comparison of image data in IPFS.
Fig 28.
Uploading and downloading time comparison of document data in IPFS.