The adoption of blockchains to effectively manage medical services is fast becoming popular for professional use and in patient-centered applications. Electronic medical records are highly sensitive with user-privacy data online with clinical services that relate to patients’ diagnosis and treatments. The features of these medical records necessitate their availability, accessibility, agility, confidentiality and security. These have been demystified with the birth of the blockchain technology that seeks to proffer platforms and application services devoted to dependability and reliability amongst other features. Thus, we propose a blockchain health information framework for healthcare facilities. Our ensemble yields a permissioned blockchain using a hyper-fabric ledger. Using this state of technology on a peer-to-peer blockchain with various actors to include patient, practitioners and other users playing the roles of the creation, retrieval and storage of medical data for a patient to aid interoperability, our ensemble produce a query response time of 0.56 secs and https response time of 0.42 secs for 2500-users, and 0.78 secs and 0.63 secs respectively for 7500-users.

Blockchain Technology, Electronic Medical Records, Data Security and Privacy, Interoperability

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