Chapter 7. Building a DApp for Digitizing Medical Records
The whole health industry is filled with a great many paper-based medical records, which is causing huge losses in terms of money, time, and lives. Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) are the solutions to many of the problems caused by paper records. There are many companies and researchers working on building EMR data management and sharing systems using blockchain technology. We will design a very different solution than the ones you will find on the internet, in the sense that those are focused only on anonymity, access control, security, and privacy, whereas our solution will also provide user experience and mass adoptability by enabling cross-application communication. While building the system, we will learn how to achieve privacy using Proxy Re-Encryption (PRE).
In this chapter, we will learn about the following topics:
- What a healthcare data management system is and what its functionalities are?
- The problems caused by paper medical...