A Correlational Investigation of Personal Medical Data Safety and Blockchains
Abstract
Any emerging technology needs a catalyst to help
its adoption into mainstream utilization. The blockchain has
been around for over 10 years now and although it has been
widely adopted in the crypto asset world, its real-world
implementation in the healthcare domain has been relatively
slow. Considering the advantages possessed inherently by
blockchains, it is perplexing as to why it has not found
widespread acceptance. With most of the proposed
implementations focusing on health records and patient
centered access control, it was necessary to gain status of
public perception of firstly, their health records, secondly,
their outlook on the security aspects of their health data and
finally understand to what extent have blockchains and its
existence has infiltrated into the general populous. The Box’s
M test significance value, p-value= 0.613, helps establish a
correlation between an individual knowledge of blockchains
and their ease in use of electronic devices. The ANOVA test
was used to reject any correlation between an individual’s age
and their perception of healthcare data safety and
accessibility. The results of this analysis would help provide
understanding on the feasibility of healthcare blockchain
implementations
Description
Keywords
Blockchain
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Healthcare
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Health records
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Data safety
,
Access
Citation
Louis, V., Maheshwari, P. and 2022 5th International Conference on Signal Processing and Information Security (ICSPIS) Dubai, United Arab Emirates 2022 Dec. 7 - 2022 Dec. 8 (2022) “A Correlational Investigation of Personal Medical Data Safety and Blockchains,” in 2022 5th International Conference on Signal Processing and Information Security (ICSPIS), pp. 113–118.