DLT Based Smart Medical Ecosystem

Abstract

The healthcare system has become more reliant on the data collection capabilities of fast evolving IoT devices. Patient healthcare records (PHR) now contain additional information as a result. However, securing identities and guaranteeing data security have emerged as critical challenges in the healthcare system. When it comes to regulating PHR, many of the centralized and decentralized methods now in use struggle difficulties such as single point of failure, high transaction fees, slow throughput, and excessive latency. To address these concerns, a distributed ledger technology (DLT)-based framework named IOTA rather than a blockchain-based platform such as Ethereum or Polygon is proposed. The proposed framework considered the example of a hospital with several patients on the same and various floors. Furthermore, the suggested approach employs a real-time experimental setup for calculating the time and power consumption of the devices.