Smart Contract Authentication Assisted GraphMap-Based HL7 FHIR Architecture for Interoperable E-healthcare System

Overview

Journal Heliyon

Specialty Social Sciences

Date 2023 Apr 24

PMID 37089400

Authors

R Sreejith

S Senthil

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Abstract

The exponential growth in the global population and significant advancements in healthcare broadened the scope of intervention for e-Healthcare through decentralized data access and information exchange, making complex clinical decisions. e-Healthcare can perform several functionalities, including EHR communication, telemedicine, and complex clinical decision systems (CCDS), but large-scale users still find it challenging to maintain interoperability, stability, and scalability. Accommodating an extensive array of stakeholders, which includes patients, doctors, hospitals, and laboratories, demands interoperability to serve scalable services. FHIR frameworks have played a vital role in e-Healthcare designs. Most of the existing HL7-FHIR frameworks have used REST-API using HTTP-query for CRUD tasks that impose numerous rules and constraints, making the process more complex and time-consuming, violating the quality-of-service (QoS) standards on different levels. This paper develops a novel, robust Smart-Contract Authentication Assisted HL7-FHIR framework toward an interoperable e-Healthcare solution. Unlike classical REST API-based FHIR, our proposed method applies a Graph-mapping concept that transforms each resource variable into an equivalent Graph-Mapped Data Structure (GMS), which is subsequently stored in the NoSQL MongoDB database, reducing computational costs and time to meet QoS demands. The proposed model employs three key components, GMS-driven HL7 FHIR Gateway Model, Smart Contract Authentication and Client Model. The Smart Contract function helped verify and authenticate users to ensure privacy and secure EHR exchange. The assessment of the performance of the proposed model reveals a significant reduction in computational time with optimal resource utilization making it a significant and viable option to better the real-world e-Healthcare mechanisms.

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