Connecting Personal Health Records Together with EHR Using Tangle

Abstract

Health Data Records Fragmentation across hospitals, labs, pharmacies, and general caregivers has been hurting medical services quality and patient outcome. The problem is getting worse as we have even more healthcare accesses from different sources such as mobile phones, wearable devices, etc. In an attempt to defragment health data, we are proposing the utilization of distributed transaction ledgers (DTL) technology by IOTA-Tangle which facilitates communication between patients and care providers. Through this technology the gap between health-care delivery and population health can be bridged so the quality of health services and patient outcomes may be improved. Our approach provides complete picture for each patient by sharing data between healthcare participants.