Open AccessUser-Centric Health Data Using Self-sovereign Identities
Author(s) -
Alexandre San Pedro Siqueira,
Arlindo Flávio da Conceição,
Vladimir Rocha
Publication year - 2021
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Conference proceedings
DOI - 10.5753/wblockchain.2021.17135
Subject(s) - blockchain , issuer , distributed ledger , computer science , architecture , domain (mathematical analysis) , sovereignty , ledger , data science , world wide web , computer security , business , accounting , political science , art , mathematical analysis , mathematics , finance , politics , law , visual arts
This article presents the potential use of the Self-Sovereign Identities (SSI), combining with Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT), to improve the privacy and control of health data. The paper presents the SSI technology, lists the prominent use cases of decentralized identities in the health area, and discusses an effective blockchain-based architecture. The main contributions of the article are: (i) mapping SSI general and abstract concepts, e.g., issuers and holders, to the health domain concepts, e.g., physicians and patients; (ii) presenting and instantiating an architecture to deal with the use cases mentioned, effectively organizing the data in a user-centric way, that uses well-known SSI and Blockchain technologies.