Department of Computer Science, Lahore Leads University, Lahore, Pakistan.
Turabah University College, Computer Sciences Program, Taif University, Taif, Saudi Arabia.
Front Public Health. 2023 Nov 28;11:1272787. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2023.1272787. eCollection 2023.
The Hyperledger Fabric (HF) framework is widely studied for securing electronic health records (EHRs) in the healthcare sector. Despite the various cross-domain blockchain technology (BCT) applications, little is known about the role of the HF framework in healthcare. The purpose of the systematic literature review (SLR) is to review the existing literature on the HF framework and its applications in healthcare. This SLR includes literature published between January 2015 and March 2023 in the ACM digital library, IEEE Xplore, SCOPUS, Springer, PubMed, and Google Scholar databases. Following the inclusion and exclusion criteria, a total of 57 articles emerged as eligible for this SLR. The HF framework was found to be useful in securing health records coming from the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) and many other devices. The main causes behind using the HF framework were identified as privacy and security, integrity, traceability, and availability of health records. Additionally, storage issues with transactional data over the blockchain are reduced by the use of the HF framework. This SLR also highlights potential future research trends to ensure the high-level security of health records.
超级账本架构(HF)在医疗保健领域被广泛研究用于保护电子健康记录(EHR)。尽管各种跨域区块链技术(BCT)应用已经存在,但是对于 HF 架构在医疗保健中的作用知之甚少。本次系统文献回顾(SLR)的目的是回顾关于 HF 架构及其在医疗保健中的应用的现有文献。本次 SLR 包括 2015 年 1 月至 2023 年 3 月期间在 ACM 数字图书馆、IEEE Xplore、SCOPUS、Springer、PubMed 和 Google Scholar 数据库中发表的文献。根据纳入和排除标准,共有 57 篇文章符合本次 SLR 的条件。研究发现 HF 架构在保护来自医疗物联网(IoMT)和许多其他设备的健康记录方面非常有用。使用 HF 架构的主要原因是隐私和安全、完整性、可追溯性和健康记录的可用性。此外,使用 HF 架构还可以减少区块链上事务性数据的存储问题。本次 SLR 还强调了潜在的未来研究趋势,以确保健康记录的高级别安全性。