Affiliations: [a] BISITE Digital Innovation Hub, University of Salamanca. Edificio Multiusos I+D+i, 37007, Salamanca, Spain
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Department of Electronics, Information and Communication, Faculty of Engineering, Osaka Institute of Technology, Osaka 535-8585 Japan | [c] Pusat Komputeran dan Informatik, Universiti Malaysia Kelantan, Karung Berkunci 36, Pengkaan Chepa, Kota Bharu 16100, Kelantan, Malaysia
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Corresponding author. Roberto Casado-Vara, BISITE Digital Innovation Hub, University of Salamanca. Edificio Multiusos I+D+i, 37007, Salamanca, Spain. E-mail: rober@usal.es and Juan Corchado, corchado@usal.es.
Abstract: Today’s e-health system is centralized. This system obliges all users (patients and healthcare staff) to have a high level of trust in the intermediary who stores the data. Moreover, healthcare employees must trust that their patients are providing authentic medical records and are not altering them in order to obtain drugs for illegal purposes. The solution proposed in this paper is a new blockchain-based architecture for the creation of an e-health system. In this architecture, wireless sensor networks (WSN) will be used in association with a WSN controller v.2 to supervise patients and their testing by healthcare staff. Transactions between blockchain and WSN are made through smart contracts, removing the need for intermediaries and preventing human error. This new model facilitates a distributed ledger, creating an e-health system that is much more optimized than the current one.
