Novel model to authenticate role-based medical users for blockchain-based IoMT devices

【Author】 Aslam, Muhammad Shehzad; Altaf, Ayesha; Iqbal, Faiza; Nigar, Natasha; Galan, Juan Castanedo; Aray, Daniel Gavilanes; Diez, Isabel de la Torre; Ashraf, Imran

【Source】PLOS ONE

【影响因子】3.752

【Abstract】The IoT (Internet of Things) has played a promising role in e-healthcare applications during the last decade. Medical sensors record a variety of data and transmit them over the IoT network to facilitate remote patient monitoring. When a patient visits a hospital he may need to connect or disconnect medical devices from the medical healthcare system frequently. Also, multiple entities (e.g., doctors, medical staff, etc.) need access to patient data and require distinct sets of patient data. As a result of the dynamic nature of medical devices, medical users require frequent access to data, which raises complex security concerns. Granting access to a whole set of data creates privacy issues. Also, each of these medical user need to grant access rights to a specific set of medical data, which is quite a tedious task. In order to provide role-based access to medical users, this study proposes a blockchain-based framework for authenticating multiple entities based on the trust domain to reduce the administrative burden. This study is further validated by simulation on the infura blockchain using solidity and Python. The results demonstrate that role-based authorization and multi-entities authentication have been implemented and the owner of medical data can control access rights at any time and grant medical users easy access to a set of data in a healthcare system. The system has minimal latency compared to existing blockchain systems that lack multi-entity authentication and role-based authorization.

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【发表时间】2024 JUL 10

【收录时间】2024-08-14

【文献类型】理论模型

【主题类别】

区块链应用-实体经济-医疗领域